Spam Folder June 2020

Hi @nick, thanks for letting us know. I've removed the answer because it caused some confusion.

@sarahw It even caused some confusion and frustration with the comments on my answer where I explained why in my answer, even though I did eventually explain where I'm coming from in the comments myself. If I can't find a silent way to do it and the ways to do it are blocked by anyone who knows what to provision it to, it can't be done. I didn't initially provide that background information to keep people from asking how to do what I did because it's not easy to cut the deal I did, but the continued attempts and mentions of a bypass forced it sadly. I don't like having to provide what I provided, but I think in this case the exception is truly warranted.

I took the comment to the answer first to help. At least my take on it has the most weight so it isn't as much of a confusing question. At least before COVID, this wasn't as common and few tried to work around the unworkable.

@sarahw more for you or @kristen to pick at.

Hi @nick, thanks for the (above) post. The user has been taken care of!

Hi @angeluru, thanks for letting us know about this one! I've deleted the post and taken care of the user.

Hi @nick, another mod let us know about the same posts and we are dealing with the user. We've contacted him and if the posts continue we will deal with him more stringently. Thank you for the post! Have a great weekend :)

@sarahw Yeah I don't like him either. He comes off bad.

Hi @jayeff, thank you for the post! I've taken care of the user. I hope you have a great weekend and winter! : )

Hi @jayeff, thanks for the heads up and for banning this user! I've deleted the comment.

Hello @eke0909, thanks for the post. I've taken care of this user!

Hi @eke0909 ,

Personally I think that you should let them know about persistent spammers even if the iRobot has deleted some of the user's spam posts.

They can be banned and then that means less spam will be posted.

I do it when I notice that a user has already had at least 2 posts deleted that were spam and I come across a 3rd that hadn't been picked up. maybe a bit harsh but they haven't come back here to complain ;-)

Cheers

@jayeff

Okay, sounds good! :D

Thanks for the answer!

Hi @eke0909, thanks for the post! I've taken care of this user too :)

Thanks @jayeff, we appreciate the post. I've taken care of them!

Hi @jayeff, thank you for deleting all of the spam and letting us know about the user. I've taken care of the ban!

Hi @jayeff, I'm not sure why he would have put his plea for help in the device page description either, maybe he was just a little confused but you can definitely delete if you see something like that in the future. It looks like he got close to the correct place where he can get help on an answer. Thanks for your help and you have a good weekend too!

Hi @nick, thanks for the post, I've taken care of the user. Have a great weekend!

Hi @nick, thanks for making us aware. I looked at all the users posts and he hasn't been active for a long time. If he starts posting links actively again we'll revisit a ban. Thanks again!

Hi @jayeff, thanks for the post! I've banned him. Yes, I had a good weekend! I hope you did too!

Hi @jayeff, thank you! I've taken care of him. Have a great week!

Hi @jayeff, thanks for letting us know about this one. I talked to @jogihara about him because I wasn't sure. I've taken care of him now! Thanks again!

Hi @jayeff, thanks for letting us know. I didn't know about this, I'm going to talk to @kristen about it and figure out what we should do. Thanks again!

Hi @jayeff, I double checked with @kristen and he had been contacted about this page already. I deleted the summary and rewrote it. Thank you!

You maybe should add an 800 or something word limit on them?

The example above was about 1600 words, more than half of that shouldn't be needed for a normal summary.

@eke0909

When creating a guide it does recommend that there is a 1-2 "sentence" summary for the area

Maybe it should be a character limit and not a word limit.

There's a 1024 character limit on "Comments" already so it shouldn't be too hard to implement

Be nice to have some plagiarism checking software though, as it seems too good when reading it ;-)

Cheers

Ohh, I forgot that it was said like that. (I haven't written a summary and it was a while ago I read how to do one).

Then it really should be a limit, a character limit is probably better since that's what the rest of the website is using. I just think it's hard to know about how long something is in characters because I'm used to being limited by a number of words. :D

Hi @jayeff and @eke0909, thank you for the post and the suggestions. I've taken care of the device page and I will see what we can do about limiting the number of characters for the summary. We appreciate your input!

Hi @jayeff and @eke0909, just a heads up, we're banning that user temporarily (1 month) however we're leaving those long summaries up for a little bit in order to show the Devs what is going on. Please continue to send us those pages if you see them but don't delete them because we need the proof so maybe we can change the rules on character limit like you suggested. Thanks for your help!

Hi @jayeff, thanks so much for sending all of these. We have passed these on and we hope this will be enough : ) Have a great weekend!

Hi @jayeff, just an update—we've removed the users history, reputation and decided on a permanent ban based on all of the activity. Thank you again for all of your help!

@sarahw

Best option I reckon. Although he may be back under another guise. He's done it once before already

'avagoodweegend.

Cheers.

Hi @nick, thank you! I've taken care of this user. Yeah, we definitely don't want this type of post on the site.

From what I can see with my limited view, I don't see anything off about the gain - yes, it's higher then the majority and there may be something going on behind the scenes, but I can confirm even I get more of my reputation from the guides and device pages then I will likely ever get in Answers.

For Answers, the rough napkin math for points I've gotten is 30,084 (16,404+11,750+1,630+300). For guides, 28,750 (13,269+8,048+7,332+60+41). As we all know since the Answers accept rate horse debate is dry glue, people mark guides as finished more often then they will ever accept an answer in Answers so that's where the points are. Hence why I prefer to make my points in guides - it's easier there, but I will still split time between guides and Answers. I'm short 1,334 points to break even between guides and Answers and I can tell you with reasonable confidence the points are almost certainly going to be made by guides and there will be a marginal points lead for guides.

I think this person may be specializing there for that exact reason based on what I have access to and they need to diversify for the sake of not being accused of it by someone less understanding. This is why I don't make my points solely from guides, as that would be a flag for someone to accuse me of cheating.

@nick

I'm only asking because I am not concerned about the Rep per se it's just that the amount amassed in such a short time was very high and took my interest. e.g. >48000 points for 1 month - outstanding don't you think given #2 on the list is only 5000 ;-)

I was just curious that the user's activity shows modifications to a lot of different device pages in a very short space of time. each one followed shortly after by acceptance of the modification, (+50 pts every time) only seconds between each modification and acceptance for each different device page.

Yet when looking at the "History" for each device page that was "modified" there is no record of it having been done or none that I could find on the page anyway. Some have not been altered for years.

In saying that any alterations that have been done usually have user iD s attributed to the alteration whereas with a lot that I checked there was no alteration and no such indication for this user.

As I said curiosity that's all There's most probably a very good reason for what has happened that I am not aware of so it will be a learning curve for me

Cheers

Hi @jayeff and @nick, thanks for letting us know about the user. I need to consult @jogihara to check on something and I will follow up. He may not be doing anything wrong, but like you I don't see where he's adding content. Thanks again!

@sarahw Hopefully it's the scenario I described where they're making points on guides more.

Hello, user 3013970 here, aka Angel ;)

Where should I start?

First, yes, I've had quite a lot of free time lately due to the virus. I thought I could use it to translate more than I used to. I was doing at the beginning some guide translations into Spanish. Yes, I am adding close-to-zero content in English, except for catching up some "poop-alike" comments like mentioned earlier in this post ;) You can also check my activity in this part (Meta)

And in the "normal" forum, I also have around 270 guides translated, seen in the activity.

Lately, I noticed that the wiki was mainly in English, so I also started to work on wikis (there's no section in the "About" for that, I can't copy/proved it here)

But, in any case, I was completely unaware that there should be a balance between guides and answers' contribution (not to appear as "suspicious of cheating").

Continue on the next comment :)

Hi @jayeff, thanks for the post! I removed all of the links. We'll see if the user keeps on posting it and if so we may need to do a ban. I appreciate your help! :)

@sarahw -You'll need to deal with the user accounts ;-{

Hi @eke0909 and @danj, thank you for making me aware of these users. I have taken care of them!

Hi @jayeff, thank you for letting me know about the two users, I've taken care of them! And no worries about the other issue, we both learned something. Thanks again!