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Has anyone noticed there are a "group" of members active here on CP.
They seem to be trolling or at the very least ask low quality questions and/or advertising.
Examples:
member 1[^]
member 2[^]
notice the profile picture which are all similar.
but I'm sure there are others.
So basically, if you see a profile picture similar to these, just ignore.
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Don't judge by the profile picture.
I don't know exactly what or how but it's a default for the 'gravatar' profile settings or something like that.
At least as far as I can figure out.
Also there is a dedicated forum to post this:
Spam and Abuse Watch Discussion Boards - CodeProject[^]
Tom
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Apparently it is some standard profile pic, so indeed that is solved.
I just happened to come across a few like those, all with a similar language usage and with low reputations, hence I thought they belonged to the same group.
modified 19-Apr-16 8:12am.
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I made the same mistake back when CP implemented the gravatar thingy so understandable
Tom
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: I don't know exactly what or how but it's a default for the 'gravatar' profile settings or something like that.
I wonder when CP started doing that? My 11yo profile doesn't have one, so it seems they didn't backfill them.
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Looks like it was added last May[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That's odd, because it got backfilled to mine.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The profile pic is a default thing that Codeproject do - Check my profile.
I seriously doubt a number of trolls have grouped together - for starters they need to have friends to do that.
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PompeyThree wrote: Check my profile.
Aha! So, you admit to being a troll!!  Off with your head!
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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He's not a Troll. He's a very naughty boy!
veni bibi saltavi
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Are you still here? I thought you were rage-quitting yesterday. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hey, lots of trolls have friends!
For about five minutes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If we kicked off everyone who asked low-quality questions, we'd be back to storing the member count in a byte! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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What's a byte, and can you help me to use if for my database app for android, apple and windows phone?
Codz plz.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Two nibbles; no; and here's your "codz"[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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People on the C# forum are good and helpful, within minutes.
What's the point to gossip and accuse
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I haven't watched these morons keenly, so not sure about the trolls. But what is really pissing me off is the "Up" votes that's put in most of the (original) posts. I was in an assumption that someone's really reading up my posts and voting it up diligently  , but it turns out to be a zombie vote. 
Every damn post is voted up here. Wish something could be done about this.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I can't really follow you - I neither see every post being upvoted nor do I see a way to distinguish between the motivation behind a vote!?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I think that guy is on a different time zone. If you see, all my orginial post(meaning the first post I make) or voted up pointlessly, when I found this thing, I looked around and found every posts are voted up. And mind you, there was JUST 1 vote for all these posts. Just lynch voting. Damn
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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+5!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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They are not trolls, they are not abusive, insulting or added inflammatory unrelated comments.
Maybe they could have changed their user name, but they are not trolls.
I'd rather be phishing!
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It's not that. First of all, it appears to be a misunderstanding from my part with the standard profile picture introduced last year.
I just saw a few parameters together (among other things advertising) and wanted to see how the rest reacted before marking them as trolls in the spam/abusive section. I saw many more than the two above in the last few weeks, they just happened be the two I saw today and I mistakingly "grouped" them together, because of the profile picture.
But again, it appears to be my misunderstanding.
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