|
Finally. Believe it or not Elina and I were bemoaning the fact we had no spam on which to test some system. Fresh meat!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
Here - have some more[^].
/ravi
|
|
|
|
|
I don't automatically upvote your posts (a rep for you seems a little redundant) but I got a chuckle out of that, fresh meat indeed!
I remember when Lounge/Code requests were such a delight, I do miss some of the flame wars that went on in the old Soapbox!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
|
|
|
|
|
Yeah, just a pity that things sometimes get out of hand, or worse, people just won't let something go and move on.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
|
This place is A-OK for such a report. Would you be willing to allow the author to post an alternative article and clearly state what changes they have made to your code? My impression is the author merely needs some education on plagiarism.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
|
|
|
|
|
Well, actually, I have no idea what to do in this case - hopefully, CodeProject team knows how to handle this. For now, this is almost exact copy of my code.
Thank you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gone
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
This[^] user posted a spam article - it's currently held in the moderation queue.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Please mark the messages as Spam. We're in the process of implementing a Bayesian filter to catch this stuff, so let's start training the spam sniffer.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, I saw that new option and marked appropriately.
Are you going to put a similar thing in the QA section?
Soren Madsen
|
|
|
|
|
Yep
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
There is one guy Ian Shlasko, the account name is also same, his comment were totally absurd, he rates without any understand, his comment are also totally absurd, he post stuffs just to gain popularity and nothing else,
It really sucks when someone comments or rate articles without any understanding or just to put down others, i expect code project, to check whether he is an authorized guy or simply comments how he likes...
There is one more important thing, code project should give importance too, i respect code project as it has brought many mechanisms to maintain transparency,
The main problem is as rating is concerned, sometimes what i observed only ppl. who know you only vote you, or ppl. who dislike you or know other means give improper rating which your article deserves like 5* rating article can become 1* or 2*, what i expect or many wish will be we need to be is rating of the article should be done by designated ppl. like MVP's or code project designated ppl. who are solution experts, not by anyone, which can lead to serious problems, ppl. cheat in this kind of scenarios, even i have seen article which are nothing become 5* rated by 100's of member, articles which are really good will be rated to 2* or 3*. Irrespective of code project awards which effects true deserved one,
It also creates wrong impression on the s/w developers who want to use and know nothing in beginning, they go by rating, they may miss article which has 2 or 3* rating, but has good quality content and read 5* articles few might be crap, even i saw many such scenarios during my experience.
I insist code project, should nominate some subject experts to rate the article, by which thing goes fine, and true article which deserves good rating will be nominated and help readers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ian, see my message here. When you said that the accounts all appeared to be from the same locality, how did you determine that?
|
|
|
|
|
I haven't read your article, but I do agree with Ian that the votes on your article are suspicious. Here are some of my observations.
- You are kishhr. One of the first upvotes to your article was by kirsur. That name is very similar to yours, and that account was created only a couple days after your article was posted.
- You got a flood of 5-votes on a single day weeks after your article was posted by accounts all created on that day. Suspicious.
- One of those suspicious accounts is "james farewell" and the other is "mathew farewell". Interesting that they both have the same last name that just happens to be a random English word. Suspicious.
- Ian mentioned that all the accounts were from the same locality. However, they now appear to all be from the US. Did you go in and change the accounts so that they would all be US-based? Or maybe Ian was noting that all the names appear to be from the same region (based on the names rather than the account setting). I'll have to ask him about that.
My guess is that you either created those accounts yourself or got a bunch of your friends to sign up to vote on your article. However, there are indicators that those accounts were created by the same person.
Keep in mind that the site administrators can look at those accounts to see if they were likely created by the same person. For example, by looking at the IP address they were created from. Are you sure there's not something you want to tell us?
|
|
|
|
|
AspDotNetDev wrote: Ian mentioned that all the accounts were from the same locality. However, they
now appear to all be from the US. Did you go in and change the accounts so that
they would all be US-based? Or maybe Ian was noting that all the names appear to
be from the same region (based on the names rather than the account setting).
I'll have to ask him about that.
A guess, based on the similar language distortions. Mainly, points #1 and #2 that you also spotted. I actually hadn't noticed #3.
|
|
|
|
|
1. There are thousand of ppl. whose names are similar, in india, leave india also in my company only, there are more than 70 to 80 ppl. in 1000+, in india there are crore of people who has that name.
2. I believe you are friend or know Ian personally and wanna support his comment.
3. The account creation or someone who rate article are beyond my scope.
4. I can understand by the name you have kept itself, you are sick spammer, the real person who post the article try to give his full name or partial name, so that others understand who is this fellow,
What kind of name is this: Thou mewling ill-breeding pignut!
5. I strongly see you are set of spammers operating collectively, and spoiling others in code projects, Not to mention...
6. Since you said there are site admin looking after this, i just wonder how they allow ppl. like you giving such crappy names to your account.
7. Culprits like you who are commenting as you wish, without understanding how it looks are not afraid why should honest person like me should afraid.
If i wanna popularize i would have hundred's of account, and made 100's of comments so that i can get an award or something, why not done by me,
Very important thing i mentioned before also, if code project removes all comments and make zero rating i am fine, i built and published for ppl. to read, not to show off or something here.
In my previous comment also you can see the experts can review is what i am saying instead of some sad ppl. like you, is my opinion
|
|
|
|