Olien_17 - spammer and likely account farmer

BenCodie

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Quote from: BenCodie on January 24, 2023, 01:33:19 PM

I wasn't sure whether reporting would just have the posts removed or if it would also deal with the user and the other accounts. I just reported all of the posts.

Related accounts is not against forum rules, but newbies can get nuked if they are caught spamming the forum, which is what happened in this case as you can see on modlog.

Quote from: BenCodie on January 24, 2023, 01:33:19 PM

Also in the future, do these matters get handled without a thread entirely if you just use the report button or do the posts just get removed?

If you provide sufficient information in the report then the mods can take appropriate action.
There is also a thread to report plagiarism if you suspect a ban evasion.

I spoke with lovesmayfamilis a bit more about the topic via PM after I thought that I had closed this thread. The replies were almost on par! Thank you for your reply anyway

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Quote from: BenCodie on January 24, 2023, 01:33:19 PM

I wasn't sure whether reporting would just have the posts removed or if it would also deal with the user and the other accounts. I just reported all of the posts.

Related accounts is not against forum rules, but newbies can get nuked if they are caught spamming the forum, which is what happened in this case as you can see on modlog.

Quote from: BenCodie on January 24, 2023, 01:33:19 PM

Also in the future, do these matters get handled without a thread entirely if you just use the report button or do the posts just get removed?

If you provide sufficient information in the report then the mods can take appropriate action.
There is also a thread to report plagiarism if you suspect a ban evasion.

BenCodie

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on January 24, 2023, 01:40:20 PM

All three accounts were created on the same day, and if they write short one-line posts that do not add any news value, just report them to the moderator as rule number one.
1. No zero or low value

If you see something like this, feel free to complain to the moderator, without creating topics.

My apologies. I haven't felt compelled to do this since I became active here again. Thread locked and noted for the future!

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All three accounts were created on the same day, and if they write short one-line posts that do not add any news value, just report them to the moderator as rule number one.
1. No zero or low value

If you see something like this, feel free to complain to the moderator, without creating topics.

Edit: Accounts 4, but these are clear alternative accounts.

sorry

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on January 24, 2023, 01:27:30 PM

You must like this button.

I wasn't sure whether reporting would just have the posts removed or if it would also deal with the user and the other accounts. I just reported all of the posts. Should I lock this thread? Also in the future, do these matters get handled without a thread entirely if you just use the report button or do the posts just get removed?

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You must like this button.

BenCodie

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Username: Olien_17
Likely alt accounts: Suma1978, Alik2001, Adam1898 (and possibly more, I have not looked too far outside of the examples that seemed blatant to me (explained below).

While browsing the latest posts in Is Blockchain a Good Career? yesterday, I first found Suma1978 and Olien_17 posting oddly similarly:

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It seems to me that this is a good career, since this is the future

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it seems to me that this career is going into the future and people who understand it are already standing for their future

I made a joke about the oddness in a post and moved on.

Then today I found Olien_17 and two other newbies with very similar weightless posts one after the other in a rather quick succession:

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It is always necessary to develop, this topic is not only interesting, but can also bring a very good profit

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the topic is interesting, and can bring very useful knowledge, which in turn will bring you money.

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Yes, but you need to understand this topic very well

The odd similarity is the short effortless post content and the punctuation. It is slightly less obvious than the first example though in my eyes it is was enough to conclude at least that Olien_17 is spamming and using more than one account. I won't say for sure that the other mentioned users are him or involved though I do think it is a pretty safe assumption.

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