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For first timer I used to post a warning - if it does not help him he should go...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Its going slowly today...
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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gone
M.D.V. 
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I think our typical Q&A forum comment "What have you tried so far?" based on the Matt Gemmell's article is a holy cow. It is really something valuable to read and think at, for most of our inquirers.
It makes even funnier to see such comments as OP's: How do I get password box working if I hit enter after I fill the password in?[^]
from http://www.codeproject.com/Members/thisCodeProjectEnabledtrue[^].
Note that it happened after OP got a really comprehensive and detailed answer which took time.
Of course, this is not about getting offensive of ridiculous accusations (even though I consider using bad words absolutely unacceptable, even if "encrypted" form). This is about different thing: clear indication that a person is not really interested in out help. So, why wasting time for help? Could be at least a good candidate for personal "ignore lists". Perhaps we need a mechanism of warnings.
That is sad: this person responded to the warning: "It's fine". He has many aliases to register at CodeProject again. It means, his own behavior is not even considered as an issue. 
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 1-Oct-14 17:09pm.
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This "question"[^] is another setup for spam answers.
recovery tool spammer>[^]
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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Question has been dealt with.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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 Was something deleted perhaps?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yes, his spam answer is gone now.
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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But he is still alive
M.D.V.
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gone
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Kicked...
Would you please help me get a new king size kicking boots as no. of such posts is increased since last few days.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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It's not the size... 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: It's not the size
Not sure if women would support your afirmation  
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I was wondering how a useless article Merge Two Class Data in C#[^] has votes of 1 or 5, no votes of 2, 3 or 4. More surprisingly there are several votes of 5 while I think there should be none. I was so surprised that I checked the profile of one of those who had voted 5 and it was really strange. Check his messages from here[^]. There are hundreds of 5 votes with the same message: "Nice...". Now that could be his style, but look at the timestamps. He is almost always giving the votes a few times in a row within a minute or two. No human can read articles so fast so it must be a bot. There is defintely some misuse with that user account (Humayun Kabir Mamun)[^].
Why I take this so personally? Because I really like codeproject and want to trust the voting system. I read the mentioned article because of several votes of 5 and it was complete waste of time.
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I was having close eye on that account and in the meantime, you spotted/reported it..
Looks like rep hunting,but i am going to make comment on his message. Let's listen to him.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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KimmoKeranen wrote: He is almost always giving the votes a few times in a row within a minute or two. No human can read articles so fast so it must be a bot.
You can open more tabs with articles, read them and close the ones you don't like. Then when done, vote the remaining ones and... hopla. You are bot.
I am not saying anything about the quality of the votes or the articles, I just wanted to point out, that the timestamps might be not an accurate "judging tool"
On the other hand, I agree with you. Many of his votes don't make much sense.
Edit: I have taken a look to his profile and history. OK, he is giving 5 to many articles that don't really deserve them, but I don't think he is rep. hunting. 6+ years here and still about 3,5k reputation. The answers in the QA are mostly legitime and trying to help.
I don't think he is to be reported.
Other people thoughts?
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modified 1-Oct-14 4:28am.
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Well, in any case the orginal article Merge Two Class Data in C#[^] voting behaviour is still strange. There are 9 votes at the moment. It seems that every time there is a new vote of 1 there is also a new vote of 5.
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Socket puppets to compensate?
The one votes are from people with low rep, so it is easy to balance with new accounts.
Edit:
My 1-vote droped the average from 3.29 to 2.45, at the moment there are 10 votes (5x 5s and 5x 1s). If a new 5 comes fast then I would start to think the author is cheating, he gets notifications about the activity in the article and tries to blow the note of the tip.
But the only we can do is speculate. The only ones who can spot the cheat (if it really exists) are the hamsters
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Now there are 11 votes, one 5-vote after your 1-vote. I don't know how much time there was between your 1-vote and the 5-vote, but the pattern seems suspicious.
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As I said, the only who can know for sure are the hamsters. We can not just use "suspicious"
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