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23-Jan-17 7:39

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

modified 24-Jan-17 16:22pm.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter23-Jan-17 1:58

23-Jan-17 1:58

MEMBER REMOVED - SECOND CHANCE...
Please solve my question and get me result as soon as possible[^]
And not even related...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

modified 24-Jan-17 16:23pm.

Re: Answer on old QA...

Richard Deeming23-Jan-17 2:53

Richard Deeming

23-Jan-17 2:53

The answer is gone. We should probably give the member a second chance, as they only joined today, and it seems to be a relatively common mistake for new members.

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- Homer

Re: Answer on old QA...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter23-Jan-17 2:56

Spammer from moderation queue (sbi general insurance)

23-Jan-17 2:56

It is fine with me... Removed the member, so trigger happy will not kick him...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

OriginalGriff23-Jan-17 1:40

Spammer from moderation queue (leohorton)

23-Jan-17 1:40

Insurance sales: sbi general insurance - Professional Profile[^]

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koolprasad200323-Jan-17 17:33

koolprasad2003

23-Jan-17 17:33

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OriginalGriff23-Jan-17 1:23

23-Jan-17 1:23

Supplements and potions again: leohorton - Professional Profile[^]

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koolprasad200323-Jan-17 17:32

koolprasad2003

23-Jan-17 17:32

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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Spam in QA?

OriginalGriff23-Jan-17 0:17

Spammer from moderation queue (hl12reviews2)

23-Jan-17 0:17

This question: Android application crashing issue[^]
From this member: Kyle Flores - Professional Profile[^]
Contains a "bad link" - it goes to a CP 404 page.
But... The link looks very suspect to me:

https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1166959/[DELETED].com/NerdDigest

Looks like he's trying to link to his site and failing? Or hiding the URL in a bad link?

Any thoughts, chaps and chapesses?

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Re: Spam in QA?

Richard Deeming23-Jan-17 2:57

Richard Deeming

23-Jan-17 2:57

He's got four other questions with no obvious spam in them. I think a warning is probably sufficient this time. Smile | :)

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- Homer

OriginalGriff23-Jan-17 0:06

Re: Spammer from moderation queue (hl12reviews2) - Gone

23-Jan-17 0:06

"Slimming supplements": hl12reviews2 - Professional Profile[^]

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Richard Deeming23-Jan-17 2:57

Richard Deeming

23-Jan-17 2:57

Slimmed the site down by one spammer.

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- Homer

Plagiarised would be blog

OriginalGriff22-Jan-17 22:55

22-Jan-17 22:55

This: Need of Context in a chatbot conversation[^]
From this: Vidyasagar Machupalli - Professional Profile[^]
Is copied from IBM: Conversation | IBM Watson Developer Cloud[^]
Search both for "context includes a unique identifier for each conversation with a user, as well as a counter that is incremented with each turn of the conversation" and look at the code block immediately below.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter22-Jan-17 23:18

22-Jan-17 23:18

A 'Microsoft MVP'?!

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

OriginalGriff22-Jan-17 23:23

22-Jan-17 23:23

That's what he says!
But ... you tell me that isn't copied ... I don't think I'd believe you ... Sigh | :sigh:

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter22-Jan-17 23:27

22-Jan-17 23:27

I didn't told it is not a copy-paste...
Vidyasagar MSC (Vidyasagar Machupalli)[^]
According to this - he is actually working for IBM...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

OriginalGriff22-Jan-17 23:52

22-Jan-17 23:52

What worries me most is that it isn't a copy-paste - it's a copy, paste, and tweak to hide the origin. There are words changed from the IBM version, and a couple of paragraphs missing between the search text and the code block. And the origin links he gives don't go to IBM at all, but to his site (where it still has no IBM links).
And the IBM version is clearly marked with their copyright.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter23-Jan-17 0:01

23-Jan-17 0:01

Yes. I saw those things too.
What convinced me is the code samples however... There would be some common between code samples explaining the same thing (like $(document).ready in jQuery samples), but here it is a simple copy-paste, even sample data is the same, although the common date-format in India isn't the same (for instance)...
I think it is very sad, that someone who apparently has some knowledge turns to plagiarism...

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

OriginalGriff23-Jan-17 0:05

23-Jan-17 0:05

It makes you wonder how he got his MS MVP, yes... Sigh | :sigh:

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