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The Spam Folder: January 2023

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Happy New Year!!! It's been a wonderful year catching spammers with you all! Let's keep up the hard work.

So, let's cut to the chase—share all the spammy content you find on iFixit in this thread so that @krisrodriguez and I can get rid of them!

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The first catch of the year goes to @geirandersen:

I couldn’t find an already created thread, so here we go!

This user 4242723 is posting spam. Haven’t clicked the link in his “question” though.

Edit: And this one, it appears 4242757

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And it's all cleaned up. Thanks again @geirandersen!

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Hi @amber

4242494

Cheers

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Done! Thanks @jayeff!

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https://www.ifixit.com/User/4249012/Roge...

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@guardian10 taken care off that spammer. Thank you.

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Hi @amber and @krisrodriguez, I just got a notification about a comment, on a guide I worked on with a student. Looks like Spam to me! Thanks for taking care of it :) https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Drai...

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@sarahw, all taken care of. Thank you for bringing this to our attention :)

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Thanks Kris!

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User: David Desoza - iFixit

Post: How to get nekopoi? - Sony Game Console Accessory - iFixit

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@andrewsawesome, thank you. All done :)

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Hi! Found this in a guide I was reviewing. Definitely looks spammy to me :\ Thank you! https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Remo...

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@sarahw @krisrodriguez I took the SPAM out. Czarina can you show this user https://www.ifixit.com/User/4215686/Jhon... the door out of here please??

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@sarahw, thank you for pointing this out. @oldturkey03, thank you for taking care of this one. I've gone ahead and brought down the ban hammer :)

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Thank you both! :)

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Here’s one: 4255254

“Advertising” some translation service, or something :)

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Taken care of, thanks @geirandersen!

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Hi @amber

4256779 No links but spam nevertheless

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@jayeff I concur with your findings. That makes two of us so he is out of here.

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This tea-person 4257535, commented post, seems more interested in tea than repairs.

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@geirandersen taken care off. Send somewhere else for new brewing experiences.

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NOT SPAM, but this person keeps mentioning Jailbreaking for everything including iCloud. This is not going to fix it, and all of the answers are low quality.

https://www.ifixit.com/User/4253308/myst...

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I think they might be trying to quickly gain reputation then edit spam links in or something like that. In any case, I would keep a close eye on the account.

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@nick @@andrewsawesome low quality or even wrong answers really should not get deleted by anybody. We can downvote or clarify via comments, but deleting it IMHO is is right up there with censoring. I am for monitoring and waiting back and seeing what happens.

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@oldturkey03 Yep. I definitely wouldn't delete it right now, as it's not breaking any rules.

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@oldturkey03 Yeah I absolutely did not mean it as a delete for bad quality. This was more of an advisory post. To make it perfectly clear: I'm a free speech absolutist and I would not at all be for deleting it. Bad posts? Yes, but deleting it is one step too far.

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Great point, I'll keep an eye open for them, too. Thanks @nick!

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Hi @amber

3348053

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@jayeff, looks like this one is already banned. Thank you for your help :)

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