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Spam Folder January 2022

New Year, New Spam! Let’s catch ‘em all!

Please post any spammy content you find on iFixit so that @krisrodriguez, @jogihara@kristen@sarahw, and I can get rid of them.

Thank you!

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@areeve Thanks for pointing out this spam account! I've cleaned up their mess and gotten rid of the account. In the future if you find more spam, start a new reply to this discussion thread at the very bottom of the page. It helps us keep track of everything.

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Happy New Year Everyone!

Happy spam hunting :)

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Hi @amber

4072791

3727923 Judging by their profile, they need to go

Cheers.

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@jayeff Done. Thank you :)

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Hi @amber

4061015

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Happy Friday, @jayeff. Thanks for the spam!

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One more to start the new year! 4059596

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Thanks for the heads up @danj! They've been confirmed, cleaned up, and banned.

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@krisrodriguez @amber @jogihara@kristen@sarahw looks like https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/483... had a couple of comments deleted by what I assume was iRobot looking for Spam https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/7180... I cannot determine if this was done by iRobot being overzealous or if that is a true occurrence. Users profile checks out to be pretty solid and nothing that looks like a spammer :-)

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Hi there @oldturkey03, sorry I missed replying to this! I had some email interactions with this user. I think he means well. The filter gets suspicious of external links and I believe that because he's a newer (low rep) user who sites a lot of info he caught the filters attention.

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@amber iRobot is pretty awesome at what it does. I have always had a soft spot for the diligence with which it keeps our house clean. Thank you for restoring those rep points. By the comments the user left, it appeared to mean a lot to him.

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Hi guys - This is the post that sent your robot nuts on the 11.1.22

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/7180...

The actual text was this, and I dunno what sort of filter picks inverted commas as being spam.

[This seems to be factory configured

“About your EliteBook x360 1030 G2

Your computer's memory capability:

Standard memory:

4GB to 16GB non-removable”]

@oldturkey03 Hello, thanks for assistance. As for shadowing me around and overseeing - you really don't have to troll every thing i do here!!

@amber, thanks for the mail i'm still confused how I came into the year with ~60 creds, gained 200 and sit back now at ~133

20.1.22:

"Not a problem!

When I originally un-spammed your contributions your 200 reputation points were reimbursed. They brought your total below 0 so with them back you're at 133. Click here to see your reputation chart.

Best,"

-Stephen

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Yes, it does mean a lot to me.

As do these kinds of comments from fixers -

"Thank you so much @eureka for all the info you gave me! Even if I didn't end up fixing the phone I learned quite a bit thanks to you. I really appreciate the time you took to write all the answers and hope other people will read them too in the future."

and this is why we do this stuff

-Stephen

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@eureka Thanks for following up with this information and for your contributions to the site! It'll help us train the robot better.

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Hi @amber

4047870

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Done. Thank you @jayeff

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https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/1874...

Looks like a handful of spam accounts on the bottom of the answers. Old post, fresh spam.

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@evanga2so your people are not trusting the "Czar of down voting" with the Ban Hammer yet? That is just wrong ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. Happy new year Evan!

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@oldturkey03 I'd be a ruthless iRobot on steroids if they gave me that responsibility :0 haha! Thanks for taking care of those.

Happy new year to you too! Keep fighting the good fight on entropy and COVID. We're always here for you :)

-Evan

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@evanga2so is actually so powerful as the Czar that we had to delegate the "Ban Hammer" to the Czarzina. @oldturkey03, thank you for deleting the spam and aggregating those offenders, they are now banned forever from the iFixit Kingdom.

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Hi @krisrodriguez

4075714

4047869

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All done! Thanks @jayeff

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Hi @krisrodriguez ,

4075686

4071604

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Cleaned up the messes first thing today. Thanks @jayeff!

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@krisrodriguez Czarina, would you be kind enough and apply the mighty Mjölnir to these spamming muppets?

https://www.ifixit.com/User/3942694/stev...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/3945667/andr...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4037718/Nanc...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4033779/Anuj...

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Hi @amber,

4076152

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@krisrodriguez ma’am two more muppets that need to leave us due to excessive Spamming

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4052403/June...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4052401/Noma...

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All cleaned up and deleted, thanks @oldturkey03!

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Hi @krisrodriguez ,

4080501

4080502

Are the above two users, one and the same person? User IDs are very close and they both started posting spam at the same time

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4080528

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I can't prove they're the same, but I believe your hunch is correct. I cleaned up the messes made by all of those accounts. Thanks @jayeff!

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@amber some more that need to go

https://www.ifixit.com/User/About/388647...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/About/372902...

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Hi @amber,

4078241

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Hi @krisrodriguez

4052367

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All done, thanks @jayeff!

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@amber one more here https://www.ifixit.com/User/3615882/Ebon...

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Taken care of, thanks @oldturkey03!

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@amber couple more to be evicted

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/399...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/400...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4042719/Bier...

Thanks.

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Thanks for the heads up, @oldturkey03! I considered giving them 30 days notice to find somewhere else to store their spam but I decided against it. They're all gone.

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Valve may not be the poster child for right to repair but...

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They're so bold to put that right there! Oh, well. Their mess has been cleaned up. Thanks @nick!

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https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/7201...

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@nick I took care off that one...;-)

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@oldturkey03 Hey it was dinner for whoever wanted it and could deal with them anyway.

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@krisrodriguez here are a few more that are ready to keep on moving on….

https://www.ifixit.com/User/About/372126...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/407...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/405...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4064665/Mich...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/2463050/Marw...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/320...

https://www.ifixit.com/User/Activity/372...

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Hi @amber

4018639

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Potential voting ring perhaps or same user

4084806 posts an answer and it is upvoted within 15 minutes by 4084818

4084815 posts an answer that is upvoted by 4084816 at the same time that it was posted

All these users? joined today 31/1/22 and their user ID are extremely close in number

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Thanks for pointing these out! I banned some and marked others as spam to check something. I'll add to my calendar to check on them in a week and see if they've tried to do anything else.

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Hi @amber

4074124

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Thanks @jayeff, I cleaned up this last submission for January!

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