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10:18 AM
@motosubatsu I've deleted the Rock Sam/PartsAvatar question, both users were from the same IP...
 
@NickC I'm totally surprised by this <sarcasm />
I think there is some scummy SEO/marketing place in Canada somewhere that does this sh#t - Medical Sciences SE gets a steady stream of questions that all have links to various clinics/medical services in the Toronto area.
 
 
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12:22 PM
@motosubatsu be interesting to see if they come from the same IP as well?
If they're all from the same block we can probably get the CMs to block them
 
@NickC yeah I don't know if they have ever looked into it to that extent over there
 
@motosubatsu ok - I'll note down the IP these two came from, then if they want it I can discuss with their mods
obviously can't post it here as it's too public
 
12:39 PM
I think most of them have been deleted over on Med (I don't have enough rep there to see deleted posts) but there's a Meta Q discussing them:
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Q: Spam Question from Toronto

NarusanIncidentally, I‘ve seen quite some spam that looks like the following: Irrelevant backstory. I‘ve seen this treatment in a clinic in Toronto. (It‘s always a „clinic in Toronto“) Has anyone here had a similar situation? What have you done to get rid of the pain? Any advice is highly...

 
@motosubatsu Thanks.
I know we've seen this before - certainly the "PartsAvatar" user or some variant has existed before
 
@NickC np :) and yeah it faintly rang a bell in my memory somewhere as well
 
@motosubatsu Yep.
 
back then they were self-answering questions - and tbh there was actually the odd nugget of useful info in the answers at least and there was no direct shilling of the service
still stank like fish left in the sun with the duplication of content between here and Quora though
 
indeed
different IPs, but then it was a couple of years ago
 
12:48 PM
@NickC yeah chances of it being the same IP a couple of years later (tbh even a couple of months later) is pretty small, even if it's the same person sat at the same desk
 
exactly
 

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