DavidW

@SmokeDetector tpu-

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79254437 "AI with spam link"

@starball It's just a text box with "Enter Hindi text" and an English translation. Together with a big list of common Hindi phrases. It's a cheap online tool, so it isn't even what the question was asking for anyway

@SmokeDetector tpu-

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79253963

sdc reportuser stackoverflow.com/users/28625370/charlee

sdc reportuser serverfault.com/users/1184075/charlee

@DavidBuck Plus a couple of answers on serverfault

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79253797 "Linked article posted 'just now' so I strongly suspect affiliation"

@DavidBuck they're the only person on SO to ever link to the site

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79253546

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79251610

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79247328

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79246517 ""No link, but advertising an event"

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79246525

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79232900

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79226306

@SmokeDetector tpu

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79224496

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79223300 "Possibly NAA, but my best guess is that it's an excuse to post a link"

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79221971

sdc report stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/79219852

@SmokeDetector looks like this post was already spotted...

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79219295 "ChatGPT with a link to the user's website. I've custom flagged it but posting it here to register the website"

@SmokeDetector "I think, based on their edits, it probably isn't trying to be misleading. But slightly hard to be sure"

sdc report stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/79217349

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79214015

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79203313

sdc report stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/79199517 "My suspicion is that this isn't really a question and is just an excuse to post a link. Given it's unprovable I've voted it as off-topic, but wanted to report it just in case the site gets posted again"

@SmokeDetector Sorry wrong link. My mistake!

@SmokeDetector fp

sdc report stackoverflow.com/staging-ground/79199123 "My suspicion is that this isn't really a question and is just an excuse to post a link. Given it's unprovable I've voted it as off-topic, but wanted to report it just in case the site gets posted again"

@SmokeDetector they're an "online digital marketing course", which if I understand correctly, means they train you to be a spammer

@SmokeDetector see also metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/508746. I'm suspicious of odmtworld.com as a whole

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79194904

@tripleee Someone with the same name as the user is posting a comment at the bottom of the dev.to article (with a link)

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79192084 askubuntu.com/a/1533018 "I've custom flagged these. Can't see direct affiliation, but I can find links elsewhere on the internet of this person posting links to the same site dev.to/gitter4coding/…;

And this one stackoverflow.com/a/79190136. He got quite enthusiastic at the end

For reference this one stackoverflow.com/a/79190138. Not that it makes a lot of difference

@Vickel I think there might have been a 6th that was nuked too quickly for smoke detector to see it. But yes

Ah right thanks.

@Vickel chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/66625155#66625155 - something similar has already been watched

@Makyen Thanks for the clarification. I've removed my "fp"

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79190032 "Looks very dubious. Possibly may not be 'intended' as spam though"

@Fastnlight Thanks. i'm not going to worry too much about the quotes in the comments though

I don't think there's any situation where that post survives long. It's just why it gets deleted

@SmokeDetector fp "I think that's just a badly plagiarised answer rather than spam."

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79187961

sdc report stackoverflow.com/a/79184642

sdc reportuser gamedev.stackexchange.com/users/186586/piyush