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This one has some typical newbie code:

 

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But at least (s)he learned quickly to press CTRL+U...

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

They are getting better. I didn't click the link, but didn't think of it as spam:


As I already said, spammers are not very creative and typically paste plagiarized content from elsewhere, then sprinkle with spam links.

 

In this case, he stole a reddit posts from a few days earlier.

 

Google is good at finding these, just place a relatively unique sentence from the post in quotes and search for it. 😄

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@altenbach wrote:

wiebe@CARYA wrote:

They are getting better. I didn't click the link, but didn't think of it as spam:


As I already said, spammers are not very creative and typically paste plagiarized content from elsewhere, then sprinkle with spam links.

 

In this case, he stole a reddit posts from a few days earlier.

 

Google is good at finding these, just place a relatively unique sentence from the post in quotes and search for it. 😄


Well, I don't really want to Google a line from every message that I read on the forum.

 

Or are you suggesting that this is automated by NI?

 

For this example, the link gave it away. But that looked to a signature to me.

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No, don't google every posts! 😄 I use this method only if I already have a strong suspicion, but am not 100% sure yet.

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*SIGH* That's really all I can say ATM.

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Thanks!

-A reply to 16 year old thread

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Posted here.

Text from IBM support page.

 

Italics on the "for", nice touch 😄

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@AeroSoul wrote:

A guy just accepted every single response to his question as a solution.


That explains why I don't hit the top 5 lately 😂 (Probably just the lack of effort 🙄)

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

@AeroSoul wrote:

A guy just accepted every single response to his question as a solution.


That explains why I don't hit the top 5 lately 😂 (Probably just the lack of effort 🙄)


Even his own replies to questions. 😄

 

I am curious if this is due to a language barrier. Maybe they think the "Mark as solution" button means "Mark as read"?

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