Are the posted questions getting worse?

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Cadavre SSC-Forever Points: 41690 More actions · Answer 1

Koen Verbeeck (2/6/2012)
It seems we have a personification of Google on these forums:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1246473-391-1.aspx?Update=1
Now he is just copy pasting MSDN articles into the topics. :rolleyes:
At least it had something to do with the topic.

Have you not noticed him before? His normal post is with a link or small comment that may or may not be related in the vaguest way to the original post.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 2

Cadavre (2/6/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (2/6/2012)
It seems we have a personification of Google on these forums:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1246473-391-1.aspx?Update=1
Now he is just copy pasting MSDN articles into the topics. :rolleyes:
At least it had something to do with the topic.
Have you not noticed him before? His normal post is with a link or small comment that may or may not be related in the vaguest way to the original post.

Of course I have noticed him before. It's hard not to 🙂

I was just pointing out the change in tactics: instead of posting a link with accompanying smiley, he now just copy pastes articles as a reply.

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HowardW One Orange Chip Points: 29109 More actions · Answer 3

This one's particularly amusing in that not only does it have nothing at all to do with the topic, but it's not even T-SQL, it seems to be for Firebird!

I'd argue that this is just spam by another name.

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HowardW (2/6/2012)
This one's particularly amusing in that not only does it have nothing at all to do with the topic, but it's not even T-SQL, it seems to be for Firebird!
I'd argue that this is just spam by another name.

The fact that his information is often erroneous reminds me of another recent-ish member that posts a lot.

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HowardW (2/6/2012)
This one's particularly amusing in that not only does it have nothing at all to do with the topic, but it's not even T-SQL, it seems to be for Firebird!
I'd argue that this is just spam by another name.

I suspect he pasted the code in the wrong tab, but I've removed it.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

Grrr...

1 - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1247308-391-1.aspx An article on SVVM in reply to a question on SQL versions.

2 - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1247195-392-1.aspx A while loop to delete all the rows in a table is more professional than a truncate table??????

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Koen Verbeeck (2/6/2012)
It seems we have a personification of Google on these forums:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1246473-391-1.aspx?Update=1
Now he is just copy pasting MSDN articles into the topics. :rolleyes:
At least it had something to do with the topic.

Sent a note asking not to do this. I suspect he's trying to up a post count, but we'll see.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 8

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/6/2012)
HowardW (2/6/2012)
This one's particularly amusing in that not only does it have nothing at all to do with the topic, but it's not even T-SQL, it seems to be for Firebird!
I'd argue that this is just spam by another name.
I suspect he pasted the code in the wrong tab, but I've removed it.

If it was the only time he'd done that, I'd agree with you, but at least half of his posts are of links that are completely unrelated to the questions. (eg a question on limiting the max query cost gets a reply with a link to a script to find the max of multiple columns in a table)

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

And another:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1247310.aspx (question on table variable, temp table, CTE or subquery, reply on best practices for using Hitachi Universal Storage Platform VM)

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004310 More actions · Answer 10

Heh... you guys must be talking about my recent favorite candidate for the "Flying Porkchop Award". I just dope slapped him where he posted two links that did Triangular Joins to do running totals.

Have any of you actually seen him post any code?

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 11

GilaMonster (2/6/2012)
Grrr...
1 - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1247308-391-1.aspx An article on SVVM in reply to a question on SQL versions.
2 - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1247195-392-1.aspx A while loop to delete all the rows in a table is more professional than a truncate table??????

Well, he says it's a more "Prof" way.

Maybe it's a reference to professors, not a statement about professionalism.

After all, the query he ~~plariarized~~ copied is a loop, and a lot of professors are more than a little loopy.

(That's enough of a stretch that I think my shoulders popped when I typed it .... )

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 12

Jeff Moden (2/6/2012)
Heh... you guys must be talking about my recent favorite candidate for the "Flying Porkchop Award". I just dope slapped him where he posted two links that did Triangular Joins to do running totals.
Have any of you actually seen him post any code?

Sure. I've seen him post code a couple of times. Not code that he wrote, since it's copy-pasted from other people's content, but it is code.

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Cadavre SSC-Forever Points: 41690 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (2/6/2012)
Heh... you guys must be talking about my recent favorite candidate for the "Flying Porkchop Award". I just dope slapped him where he posted two links that did Triangular Joins to do running totals.
Have any of you actually seen him post any code?

A bit, but it's not pretty.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1247195-392-1.aspx#bm1247338

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1246447-392-1.aspx#bm1247166

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 14

Jeff Moden (2/6/2012)
Have any of you actually seen him post any code?

Oh yes, I've seen him post lots of code. Never any of his own though...

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 15

Maybe that account is actually just a poorly written bot.

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