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Potential rep farming report

So I've been browsing guides for Sony Z1 and have noticed 1 "In Progress Guide". When I opened the so-called "Guide", I discovered that there was nothing inside. Last edit was a couple months ago limited to "Added Title" and "Added Conclusion". Even though there are no instructions, somebody has completed them and translated into another language. The bottom line: No guide, no photos, no benefits for community, yet +60 rep for author as well as +3 badges. I might be reading too much into it, but still.

TL;DR iFixit user had created blank repair guide and asked his friend to mark it as "Completed" for badges and rep.

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Hi Nastya, I think this is likely a case of a misplaced question. We often get users who use the Make a Guide function as a way to search for content, especially non-english speakers. Then they end up abandoning the guide. It's likely that other users like yourself found it and "completed" it as a way to upvote/follow/express interest in. 60 points in a year isn't too worrisome. Rep farming is really only dangerous when the member is trying to use that rep for a nefarious purpose, usually in answers, to get traffic to a website or something.

I'll go ahead and delete the empty guides as they're not helping anyone. Thanks for the report!

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I have some abandoned/half finished guides I never finished too. I just don't make them public. One of my guides was supposed to be how to fix all windows blue screen errors, but there are too many than I'd like to do.

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Much obliged

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@captainsnowball Most of mine are old guides that need so much work I am better off staring with a new base since I am better off starting over from nothing or it was written for something very few people bother repairing any salvage effort is redundant.

It's mainly very old computers, why did I ever make a guide on this and 2 HP ink change guides I had back then. I did unpublish some obsolete Linux guides but most of it isn't worth saving on my end and I am retaining them because deletion requests are annoying or they're time capsules. I've moved onto other guides.

That's not to say I won't collaborate with someone on saving these dead guides if they want to help bring them back in some circumstances; I'm open to that if it makes sense. Most of the time I'd rather let it die but there's a few I'd like to see cone back but for me it doesn't make sense.

If it makes sense and you're seriousI will edit the old guides as if they are new, provide that as a base to work with for new pictures.

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@nick why are you getting delete requests?

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I mention them on Meta and see what goes :p. Some survive while others don't.

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Nastya Grifon will be eternally grateful.