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Spam reporting thread #35

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1lilithcat
maaliskuu 9, 2015, 9:14 am

PROCEDURES FOR REPORTING SPAM

Distinguish between the following, and flag the highest level of the violation:

-- Type 1: Irredeemable commercial spam: make sure to flag the member's profile, as well as the spammy activity. This type includes things selling strollers, pharmaceuticals, live-streaming sports games, porn, and/or trying to create traffic/links to sites for such things. Sufficient profile flags will automatically result in temporary suspension and deletion of the member's activity, so use your profile-flagging powers wisely and carefully.

-- Type 2: Teachable moments: DO NOT flag the member's profile, but DO flag the violating activity (e.g. self-promotional Talk post, group, or local venue). This type includes promotional activity that violates the Terms of Service (TOS), but where the member is potentially redeemable, e.g. overzealous authors, overzealous publishers, or other members with small TOS violations but who are otherwise using the site legitimately. These cases should be reported to staff (by sending a message or email to staff and/or or posting on this thread), so the member can be taught how to use the site.

Specific procedures:
-- Overzealous authors or publishers (these fall under type 2): do NOT flag the member's profile. Report to staff here or privately. You can also send the member a polite message pointing them to the terms, mentioning the "no promoting" language, and pointing them to the Do's and Don't page for authors: http://www.librarything.com/about_authors.php
-- Suspected sock-puppetry to promote a book, write fake reviews, and/or stack ratings: do not flag the profile, but report to staff here or by message, so staff can investigate. This is a serious violation for which members can be permanently banned.
-- Profile flags for commercial spammers only (type 1): On the member's profile page, click on the "report for spam" link, then follow instructions to flag the member. Again, this is only for commercial spam, not for "overzealous" authors, publishers, or booksellers, which should be reported to staff instead. See Talk post: http://www.librarything.com/topic/85810
-- Spam or promotional posts in a Talk topic (type 1 or 2): flag the post as an abuse of the terms of service.
-- Spam or promotional groups (types 1 and 2): flag new groups using the "flag this group" link.
-- Spam lists: report in this thread, and flag the member if it's commercial spam.
-- Spam works (type 1 spam): flag the work as spam on the work's editions page, and then vote on proposed work spam. Make sure to read the guidelines before proposing or voting, especially for what is not spam. Voting page: http://www.librarything.com/spam_works.php
-- Spam in a review (type 1), or an explicitly promotional review (type 2): flag the review as an abuse of the TOS, using the red flag.
-- Spam or promotion in "published reviews," or other CK fields (type 1 or 2): post here and/or delete.
-- Spam or egregious promotion/advertising in venues or events (type 1 or 2): post here and/or delete. Note that authors are permitted to add events for their books.
-- Spam in book links / quick links: post here and/or edit to remove spam.
-- Spam author names listed on a work: No current procedure. Tim has asked us not to change CK to indicate spammers, and not to combine spam authors together.
-- Not sure if it's spam? Post here, and explain why.

Please note that Tim has asked us not to use either CK or the combining system (whether works or authors) for spam fighting.

For more information see these wiki pages:
Procedures for flagging and reporting spam: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Spam#Procedures_for_flagging_and_repo....
Spam works, guidelines for flagging and voting: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Spam_works

(A copy of these guidelines, for pasting in new threads, can be found here or at the top of previous threads.)

22wonderY
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 9, 2015, 1:08 pm

5Yamanekotei
maaliskuu 10, 2015, 9:16 am

"The foriegn is a lot like data file storage area on the horizon. You can get for it whenever youray on the"

http://www.librarything.com/topic/188797
http://www.librarything.com/profile/beautyqueen793

8Lyndatrue
maaliskuu 11, 2015, 2:11 pm

92wonderY
maaliskuu 12, 2015, 7:18 am

It's awfully quiet today.

10MsMaryAnn
maaliskuu 12, 2015, 8:36 am

Google translate=online casino

http://www.librarything.com/profile/sbobetlink5

112wonderY
maaliskuu 12, 2015, 8:44 am

>10 MsMaryAnn: And judging by the picture, possibly some illegal activities.

16MarthaJeanne
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 13, 2015, 8:31 am

17lilithcat
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 9:27 am

> 16

I find authors who refer to themselves in the third person on their profiles really annoying.

18MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 10:08 am

It's also pathetic that she is her own favourite author. I don't see how you can expect others to read your stuff if you don't read yourself.

19Lyndatrue
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 11:15 am

>16 MarthaJeanne: I recognize that profile. I know, for a fact, that 2wonderY left her a message, which I see is deleted, from yesterday's event (>12 2wonderY:). It's early for me, because my natural instinct is to flag the profile, *and* the series for the book, *and* the book, *and*... Well, you get the idea. This is all for a book which does not yet exist. Nope. It'll be "published" in July 2015.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1937844560

The publisher, EverFaith Press, is yet another boutique self-publishing place. Oh, Evie, wherever you are... Reality wants to talk to you.

No worries, I haven't flagged the profile...but I really want to. I wonder if anyone has ever suggested that one non-existent book does not a series make?

20gilroy
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 11:23 am

>19 Lyndatrue:
The series isn't even set up correctly. I've been wanting to go fix it.

21MarthaJeanne
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 13, 2015, 12:12 pm

She deleted my comment, too. I put her profile here to have a record that we've dealt with her before.

22lilithcat
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 2:07 pm

I really wish LT would go back to requiring someone to have catalogued a minimum number of books before they can have the "LT author" badge. And, if I had my way, that would be other people's books.

23lilithcat
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 2:10 pm

Author promotion: https://www.librarything.com/topic/188884#

I've left a private comment on his profile.

25MsMaryAnn
maaliskuu 13, 2015, 5:20 pm

29Lyndatrue
maaliskuu 14, 2015, 10:20 am


The post is probably gone, but the profile still needs flagging

http://www.librarything.com/topic/188918#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/brat1956

30MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 14, 2015, 10:22 am

Profile suspended.

32MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 14, 2015, 5:49 pm

>31 Lyndatrue: All gone!

47MarthaJeanne
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 17, 2015, 2:52 am

Gone. That took 5 minutes.

50henkl
maaliskuu 17, 2015, 5:55 am

54lilithcat
maaliskuu 18, 2015, 12:39 am

57Ennas
maaliskuu 18, 2015, 6:42 am

All gone!

62Yamanekotei
maaliskuu 18, 2015, 2:51 pm

https://www.librarything.com/topic/189061
https://www.librarything.com/profile/gurmatday

"Bangladesh looking to create a massive upset in possibly their biggest ever game"

64MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 18, 2015, 3:06 pm

Gone now.

81MsMaryAnn
maaliskuu 21, 2015, 7:14 am

Spam in image comments and tags

http://www.librarything.com/profile/impexsupport

85Lyndatrue
maaliskuu 21, 2015, 9:55 am

Profile in >83 MsMaryAnn: still needs more flags.

90zjakkelien
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 22, 2015, 3:45 am

95zjakkelien
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 23, 2015, 7:27 am

https://www.librarything.com/topic/189216#


edit: already disappeared. I wanted to go back to add the profile, but I wasn't quick enough!

98Yamanekotei
maaliskuu 24, 2015, 2:34 am

103Lyndatrue
maaliskuu 24, 2015, 11:46 am

>102 MsMaryAnn: I'm guessing that the topic vanished anyway, but just wanted to point out that the "topic" linked to is actually the current thread for Spam reporting...

105MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 25, 2015, 2:34 am

All gone.

110bluepiano
maaliskuu 25, 2015, 5:45 pm

https://www.librarything.com/list/10168/all/Literary-Travel-Fiction

Member who started the list contributed only one title to it. Coincidentally it's the only book he's catalogued. I'll let you guess who wrote it.

111MarthaJeanne
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 25, 2015, 6:04 pm

Tacky, but not really spam.

He gave his own book 5 stars, too. And doesn't seem to own any other books. Sad really.

117lorax
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 26, 2015, 9:12 am

>110 bluepiano:

Not only is it tacky and not spam, but it's easily countered by other people adding more books to the list. (I see the author was smart enough to make that list non-downable, so you can't vote down the spammy work, but adding more books will push it down anyway.)

119henkl
maaliskuu 26, 2015, 10:22 am

Gone.

132Jarandel
maaliskuu 29, 2015, 2:49 pm

www.librarything.com/topic/189471
http://www.librarything.com/profile/aniobanu

136MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 5:49 am

>134 klarusu: 135
both gone.

1392wonderY
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 7:54 am

just for the record

http://www.librarything.com/topic/189496
http://www.librarything.com/profile/barbieedoll018

with the numbers, barbiee may be a serial spammer.

1402wonderY
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 30, 2015, 1:26 pm

new member author posted at the bottom of this thread:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/111519#2595361

and admittedly, it does fit the thread.

**Cringe** I clicked through to the description and cover image.

141amysisson
Muokkaaja: maaliskuu 30, 2015, 1:32 pm

>140 2wonderY:

Yikes! Agreed on that cover.....

I flagged it but it's not showing flags. I thought two flags would show. Did you not flag it? (Just the post, not the member....)

ETA: Oops, spoke too soon. Showing now.

1422wonderY
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 1:32 pm

I did; and I have no patience today sending the author a note.

143gilroy
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 1:34 pm

>140 2wonderY:
OMG, the description sounds horrible, the cover... Ugh. Makes me wonder if a 10 year old wrote it then picked the cover art...

1442wonderY
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 1:40 pm

See more art on his Amazon author page:
http://www.amazon.com/Dilland-Doe/e/B00TUKIX7S

1452wonderY
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 2:03 pm

1462wonderY
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 2:07 pm

Flags are slow today.

147MsMaryAnn
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 2:09 pm

>145 2wonderY: When first posted there were no links. The spammer went back and edited to add links.

1482wonderY
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 2:57 pm

Right. I didn't actually post 145 until he'd edited.

149MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 30, 2015, 3:42 pm

Those are gone now.

151MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 31, 2015, 2:20 am

Gone

153MarthaJeanne
maaliskuu 31, 2015, 3:48 am

http://www.librarything.com/groups/preciousfreebooks

and all topics there.

I have left a message with links to the Terms of service and page for publishers.

155gilroy
maaliskuu 31, 2015, 6:58 am

>140 2wonderY: Um, should the user have been killed too? Because that was just an author improperly advertising, wasn't it?

OR did he do something else to warrant removal?

1562wonderY
maaliskuu 31, 2015, 7:22 am

>155 gilroy: Not that I know of. That's why I distinguished the post as an author and didn't post the profile url.

165Lyndatrue
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 1, 2015, 4:38 pm

Author spam:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/143180#5110934

No, I didn't leave a comment on the profile (http://www.librarything.com/profile/Viswa.Pilla). Please note; that's not an invitation to flag the profile, but more a note just in case it shows up again. (I see that I should type faster: >164 2wonderY:)

166MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 1, 2015, 4:44 pm

I put a comment.

168Mr.Durick
huhtikuu 2, 2015, 3:30 am

I got the kill.

Robert

169MarthaJeanne
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 2, 2015, 3:59 am

http://www.librarything.com/topic/189649

http://www.librarything.com/profile/annajay

http://www.librarything.com/work/15894426/117434932 Same spam as in the topic as review.

The group is already gone.

So are topic and profile. The work is still there.

176MsMaryAnn
huhtikuu 3, 2015, 7:02 am

177MsMaryAnn
huhtikuu 3, 2015, 7:06 am

178Lyndatrue
huhtikuu 3, 2015, 9:41 am

I almost missed this one: HVAC

http://www.librarything.com/profile/airmakers

I also flagged this comment. Even though it's innocent right now (out of place, but innocuous), it's a simple thing for "airmakers" to come back and add other crap.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/111260#5115563

180MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 3, 2015, 3:50 pm

That one's gone.

183MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 4, 2015, 3:43 am

There were actually three spam messages at the very top of talk when I came on this morning. But they are all gone now.

185Lyndatrue
huhtikuu 5, 2015, 1:26 pm

Long, boring, but still spam (for bootleg copies of Furious 7, which is apparently a new film)

http://www.librarything.com/topic/189757#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/manmerijaan

186Lyndatrue
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 5, 2015, 1:26 pm

Viestin kirjoittaja on poistanut viestin.

198Taphophile13
huhtikuu 6, 2015, 4:38 pm

enthusiastic author posting in bug collectors!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/189796#

200Yamanekotei
huhtikuu 7, 2015, 12:50 am

201rybie2
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 7, 2015, 1:10 am

>200 Yamanekotei: Flagged profile for you.

EDIT: Topic already had gone kablooey.

203MsMaryAnn
huhtikuu 7, 2015, 5:43 am

2102wonderY
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 9, 2015, 7:24 am

213MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 9, 2015, 2:52 pm

Ha! I thought that one was going to turn into spam!

219lilithcat
huhtikuu 10, 2015, 2:18 pm

224Ennas
huhtikuu 11, 2015, 6:17 am

Ha! I was first! ;-p

225Mr.Durick
huhtikuu 11, 2015, 6:19 am

Consoling myself, I don't think I was last.

Robert

226Ennas
huhtikuu 11, 2015, 6:24 am

:-)

227MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 11, 2015, 7:08 am

Someone was last. It's gone now, and I never saw it.

233Lyndatrue
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 12, 2015, 9:43 am

Viestin kirjoittaja on poistanut viestin.

234MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 12, 2015, 9:43 am

But I won't flag if I haven't seen the spam.

238MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 12, 2015, 12:14 pm

That one was gone very quickly.

246rsterling
huhtikuu 13, 2015, 8:15 pm

For staff to check out (don't flag profiles):

Possible sock puppetry:
https://www.librarything.com/profile/EmmanuelleM
https://www.librarything.com/profile/Inspiredbywords

The first is the author. The second has been recommending and reviewing that author's book. They joined on the same day.

The author has also been (anonymously) recommending her own book in member recommendations. No-no; and explicitly so given the instructions there. So these are up for deletion when staff next run the script that detects and deletes author self-recommendations.

From the recommendations helpers log:

EmmanuelleM recommends Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-volume Boxed Set by E. L. James for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-volume Boxed Set by E. L. James (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends Fanny Hill by John Cleland for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

EmmanuelleM recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for Fanny Hill by John Cleland (Apr 12, 2015)

Inspiredbywords recommends Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immortal Mentors by Marquis de Sade for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

Inspiredbywords recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immortal Mentors by Marquis de Sade (Apr 12, 2015)

Inspiredbywords recommends The Story of O by Pauline Réage for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

Inspiredbywords recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for The Story of O by Pauline Réage (Apr 12, 2015)

Inspiredbywords recommends The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant for The Sleeping Beauty Novels by A. N. Roquelaure (Apr 12, 2015)

Inspiredbywords recommends The Sleeping Beauty Novels by A. N. Roquelaure for The Gentlemen's Club: Volume One in the 'Noire' series by Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Apr 12, 2015)

247rsterling
huhtikuu 13, 2015, 8:45 pm

And more very likely sock puppets (or something else very fishy), for a different author. Staff, please check out the patterns of 5-star ratings, reviews, and recommendations on this author's books:

https://www.librarything.com/author/abbottleesa

Too many possible sock puppet accounts to list here, but just look at everyone who's 5-starred and 4-starred her books. One or two look legitimate, but most share a clear pattern.

248lilithcat
huhtikuu 13, 2015, 8:46 pm

Hmm, I'm not so sure. The only book they have in common is EmmanuelleM's, and the recommendations don't seem out of line, based on Inspiredbywords' review, which seems odd if sockpuppetry is happening. I also note that EmmanuelleM uses amazon.uk as her data source, while Inspiredbywords uses amazon.com, suggesting that they are geographically separated. Maybe a friend or relative?

But definitely something to keep an eye on.

249rsterling
huhtikuu 13, 2015, 9:26 pm

Lorannen or someone can, I hope, check it out using back-end data. I find it suspicious to see 2 people joining on the same day, then making a bunch of recommendations back to back with one another (Inspired... makes several recs, then right after that the author does). See Recs helpers log. https://www.librarything.com/zeitgeist/recommendations. Could be a friend or relative, as you say, but it seems hard to imagine that the the almost simultaneous joining and recommending are unconnected.

253Gordopolis
huhtikuu 14, 2015, 4:37 am

Hi,

I have published an interview with an author on my blog. Would it be considered spamming to post the link to my blog on LibraryThing?

Thanks,
Gord

2582wonderY
huhtikuu 14, 2015, 11:38 am

2592wonderY
huhtikuu 14, 2015, 11:48 am

263zjakkelien
huhtikuu 15, 2015, 3:28 am

>253 Gordopolis: The better place to ask this is here. I'm not 100 % clear on where the borders are, but I think that whether it is spam probably depends on where you want to post it. In your profile is fine, if you want to post it in talk and the author is you, then it might be better to stick to the place where author promotion is allowed (the Hobnob with authors group). If the author is someone else, I suspect it is ok to post it. Please, try asking this as well in the other thread or check the TOS.

267MarthaJeanne
huhtikuu 15, 2015, 6:16 am

These are gone.

271klarusu
Muokkaaja: huhtikuu 15, 2015, 8:47 am

> 210 Jinx!

2722wonderY
huhtikuu 15, 2015, 8:48 am

>271 klarusu: I believe I owe you a Coke.

273klarusu
huhtikuu 15, 2015, 8:49 am

274lilithcat
huhtikuu 15, 2015, 9:01 am

Moving to a new topic.
Tämä viestiketju jatkuu täällä: Spam reporting thread #36.