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Spammer from moderation queue (Rosy James)

8-Feb-17 0:27

Just links to all sorts of things: Member 12989043 - Professional Profile[^]
His first test got through (with only one link): Latest Messages[^] so I'm guessing that was a tester. Burn the heretic!

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

modified 9-Feb-17 2:15am.

OriginalGriff7-Feb-17 23:01

Re: Spammer from moderation queue (Rosy James) - Gone

7-Feb-17 23:01

Trying to sell us tyres: Rosy James - Professional Profile[^]

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Richard Deeming8-Feb-17 1:52

Richard Deeming

8-Feb-17 1:52

Spammer terminated, even though he did know how to spell "tyre" properly. Smile | :)

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Plagiarised would be article

OriginalGriff7-Feb-17 22:14

Re: Plagiarised would be article - Gone

7-Feb-17 22:14

This: Asp.Net MVC-Convention vs Attribute Routing[^]
From this: PragyaSharma - Professional Profile[^]
Contains some bits lifted from here: Attribute Routing vs Convention Routing - ASP.NET MVC Demystified[^]
Search both for "MapRoute includes a few parameters: a name of the route that must be unique to each route, a tokenized URL structure, and default values that will be applied if alternate values are not supplied by the route." and compare that against the language used at the beginning of the article.
I suspect this is an assembly job, with bits taken from all over.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Richard Deeming8-Feb-17 1:55

Richard Deeming

8-Feb-17 1:55

Plagiarist terminated.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Rep point hunting from the moderation queue? - gone

OriginalGriff7-Feb-17 22:07

Re: Site driver (didinj) - Gone

7-Feb-17 22:07

This: how to refresh windows 7 without restart? (Answer 3)[^]
From this: Member 12988711 - Professional Profile[^]
Re-opening a 2011 question to post totally irrelevant rubbish.

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modified 9-Feb-17 2:15am.

Site driver (didinj)

Richard MacCutchan7-Feb-17 21:57

Richard MacCutchan

7-Feb-17 21:57

This: Re: Help getting started - Mobile Discussion Boards[^]
From: didinj - Professional Profile[^]

Richard Deeming8-Feb-17 1:56

Richard Deeming

8-Feb-17 1:56

Spammer terminated.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Spammer from moderation queue (soleileyecream) - gone

OriginalGriff7-Feb-17 19:49

dfdsfsdfsdfs - Professional Profile[^]

7-Feb-17 19:49

Testosterone and face creams: soleileyecream - Professional Profile[^]

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

modified 8-Feb-17 4:04am.

Hacks (dfdsfsdfsdfs)

Jörgen Andersson7-Feb-17 19:37

Jörgen Andersson

7-Feb-17 19:37

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Gone

den2k887-Feb-17 23:18

den2k88

7-Feb-17 23:18

Gone

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Any checks being done on regular revisions?

Midi_Mick7-Feb-17 14:09

7-Feb-17 14:09

There are a few authors from whom I see article revisions every couple of days. It is so regular that I am starting to suspect that they do this just to get their articles moved up the list. Are there any checks and balances built in that are applied to this type of activity?
I know it has been mentioned in another forum, but it is difficult to be able to see just what has been revised.

Cheers,

Mick
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User 592417-Feb-17 15:59

User 59241

7-Feb-17 15:59

Did you mean to post this here or in the Bugs and Sugs[^]?

Peter Wasser

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Midi_Mick7-Feb-17 17:11

7-Feb-17 17:11

Here - I'm wondering if checks are in place to identify people abusing the system? I remember already seeing something in either the Site bugs or the Articles forum stating that checking what changes are made in a proposed revision is difficult, and although that would help identify people just changing a comma every few days, even reasonable sized changes being made every few days may be being done just to get the article back on top of the home page.

Cheers,

Mick
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Wendelius7-Feb-17 20:39

Wendelius

7-Feb-17 20:39

Midi_Mick wrote:
There are a few authors from whom I see article revisions every couple of days.

That happens from time to time. Usually the authors get tired of doing this quite quickly and possibly realize that it doesn't help at all.

Midi_Mick wrote:
it is difficult to be able to see just what has been revised

What comes to comparing the revisions, you can use the compare tool in revision list, have a look The Windows Property System - revisions

Midi_Mick7-Feb-17 21:23

7-Feb-17 21:23

Mika Wendelius wrote:
What comes to comparing the revisions, you can use the compare tool in revision list

This can be done after its been approved, but the pending revision is not available in that list.

Cheers,

Mick
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Nelek8-Feb-17 1:37

Nelek

8-Feb-17 1:37

Yes... you just need to go a bit backwards before going forwards Wink | ;)

In the pending queue you get a message "this is a new version of the currently posted article (with link)"

If you go to the current posted, then you can get the revisions list and the one you are in, is usually the second or third one and the one in the moderated queue is above.

M.D.V.

Sean Ewington8-Feb-17 3:41

Sean Ewington

8-Feb-17 3:41

There's nothing in place to check for abuse in this fashion. I have to catch it manually (but sometimes I go to sleep at night).

If you see someone you think is over-updating and suspect abuse, please let me know.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Midi_Mick8-Feb-17 4:01

8-Feb-17 4:01

There are 3 names that I have been seeing pop up with revisions every few days for well over a month, and the regularity of it just got me wondering. There is the guy with all the Chinchoo ETL articles, the guy with the CatFactory, and Mr "Angular2 & WebAPI(SPA) for Enterprise App". All articles are quite good, and are rated well - its just the number and regularity of revisions that had me questioning.

Cheers,

Mick
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Sean Ewington8-Feb-17 4:19

Sean Ewington

8-Feb-17 4:19

I went back a month and looked at updates they've made on a few of each of their articles. In a lot of cases, they really are updating the content. It's very common to have authors that constantly tweak and update their articles. Unfortunately, not every update needs to be marked as one. I'll have a word.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject