Spam reporting thread #35
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1lilithcat
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.)
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
favorite books for 4th graders
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188783
http://www.librarything.com/profile/iscroped
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188783
http://www.librarything.com/profile/iscroped
3Yamanekotei
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188792
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188791
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Andabra
ETA : the best Load Cell Supplier in India
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188791
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Andabra
ETA : the best Load Cell Supplier in India
5Yamanekotei
"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
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188797
http://www.librarything.com/profile/beautyqueen793
8Lyndatrue
They're getting sneakier with the subject lines...
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188830#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/jeekardsao
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188830#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/jeekardsao
112wonderY
>10 MsMaryAnn: And judging by the picture, possibly some illegal activities.
16MarthaJeanne
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188877
is author spam again.
Author profile http://www.librarything.com/profile/EvieTMcduff
is author spam again.
Author profile http://www.librarything.com/profile/EvieTMcduff
17lilithcat
> 16
I find authors who refer to themselves in the third person on their profiles really annoying.
I find authors who refer to themselves in the third person on their profiles really annoying.
18MarthaJeanne
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
>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?
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
>19 Lyndatrue:
The series isn't even set up correctly. I've been wanting to go fix it.
The series isn't even set up correctly. I've been wanting to go fix it.
21MarthaJeanne
She deleted my comment, too. I put her profile here to have a record that we've dealt with her before.
22lilithcat
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
Author promotion: https://www.librarything.com/topic/188884#
I've left a private comment on his profile.
I've left a private comment on his profile.
29Lyndatrue
The post is probably gone, but the profile still needs flagging
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188918#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/brat1956
30MarthaJeanne
Profile suspended.
31Lyndatrue
Topics may be gone by the time you see this post
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188925#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/kolasyuop
and
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188926#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/kaleemamin
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188925#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/kolasyuop
and
http://www.librarything.com/topic/188926#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/kaleemamin
32MarthaJeanne
>31 Lyndatrue: All gone!
45Yamanekotei
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189008#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/michalbrns
"7 Website Mistakes You Must Avoid"
lol
http://www.librarything.com/profile/michalbrns
"7 Website Mistakes You Must Avoid"
lol
47MarthaJeanne
Gone. That took 5 minutes.
54lilithcat
Author promotion:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189043
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189042
I've left a comment on his profile.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189043
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189042
I've left a comment on his profile.
62Yamanekotei
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"
https://www.librarything.com/profile/gurmatday
"Bangladesh looking to create a massive upset in possibly their biggest ever game"
64MarthaJeanne
Gone now.
85Lyndatrue
Profile in >83 MsMaryAnn: still needs more flags.
86Lyndatrue
Don't know how I missed this
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189152#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/NellieLiu6
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189152#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/NellieLiu6
89lilithcat
watch movies online free
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189167
https://www.librarything.com/profile/clvzkj
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189167
https://www.librarything.com/profile/clvzkj
90zjakkelien
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189170#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/ifewore
Fourth graders again.
edit: gone already!
http://www.librarything.com/profile/ifewore
Fourth graders again.
edit: gone already!
95zjakkelien
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189216#
edit: already disappeared. I wanted to go back to add the profile, but I wasn't quick enough!
edit: already disappeared. I wanted to go back to add the profile, but I wasn't quick enough!
98Yamanekotei
Best app for playing games in window phone
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189244
http://www.librarything.com/profile/karenwhitney05
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189244
http://www.librarything.com/profile/karenwhitney05
103Lyndatrue
>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
All gone.
110bluepiano
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.
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
Tacky, but not really spam.
He gave his own book 5 stars, too. And doesn't seem to own any other books. Sad really.
He gave his own book 5 stars, too. And doesn't seem to own any other books. Sad really.
116lilithcat
Spam venue, photo, member, book, review:
http://www.librarything.com/venue/97386/Protein-Powders-Protein-shakes-for-weigh... (I've archived the venue)
http://www.librarything.com/profile/MmaSportsNutrition
http://www.librarything.com/new_pic.php?picture=4779021
http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=MmaSportsNutrition
http://www.librarything.com/work/15870806
http://www.librarything.com/venue/97386/Protein-Powders-Protein-shakes-for-weigh... (I've archived the venue)
http://www.librarything.com/profile/MmaSportsNutrition
http://www.librarything.com/new_pic.php?picture=4779021
http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=MmaSportsNutrition
http://www.librarything.com/work/15870806
117lorax
>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.)
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.)
129lilithcat
Spam venue has been archived but images and profile need to be flagged:
http://www.librarything.com/pic/4781160
http://www.librarything.com/pic/4781165
http://www.librarything.com/pic/4781163
http://www.librarything.com/profile/designinnovations
http://www.librarything.com/pic/4781160
http://www.librarything.com/pic/4781165
http://www.librarything.com/pic/4781163
http://www.librarything.com/profile/designinnovations
132Jarandel
www.librarything.com/topic/189471
http://www.librarything.com/profile/aniobanu
http://www.librarything.com/profile/aniobanu
136MarthaJeanne
>134 klarusu: 135
both gone.
both gone.
1392wonderY
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.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189496
http://www.librarything.com/profile/barbieedoll018
with the numbers, barbiee may be a serial spammer.
1402wonderY
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.
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
>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.
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.
143gilroy
>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...
OMG, the description sounds horrible, the cover... Ugh. Makes me wonder if a 10 year old wrote it then picked the cover art...
1442wonderY
See more art on his Amazon author page:
http://www.amazon.com/Dilland-Doe/e/B00TUKIX7S
http://www.amazon.com/Dilland-Doe/e/B00TUKIX7S
1452wonderY
This is just too obviously a spam prequel:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189505
http://www.librarything.com/profile/jonsinadolzi
yep
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189505
http://www.librarything.com/profile/jonsinadolzi
yep
147MsMaryAnn
>145 2wonderY: When first posted there were no links. The spammer went back and edited to add links.
149MarthaJeanne
Those are gone now.
151MarthaJeanne
Gone
153MarthaJeanne
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.
and all topics there.
I have left a message with links to the Terms of service and page for publishers.
155gilroy
>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?
OR did he do something else to warrant removal?
1562wonderY
>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
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:)
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
I put a comment.
169MarthaJeanne
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.
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.
1702wonderY
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189666
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Ades1993
favorite books for 4th graders
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Ades1993
favorite books for 4th graders
178Lyndatrue
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
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
179lilithcat
Keeping an eye on this one:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189697#
https://www.librarything.com/profile/elizbethswift
https://www.librarything.com/topic/189697#
https://www.librarything.com/profile/elizbethswift
180MarthaJeanne
That one's gone.
183MarthaJeanne
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
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
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189757#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/manmerijaan
187MsMaryAnn
Review translated from Turkish= Transportation company
http://www.librarything.com/profile/BedirogluNakliye
http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=BedirogluNakliye
http://www.librarything.com/profile/BedirogluNakliye
http://www.librarything.com/profile_reviews.php?view=BedirogluNakliye
200Yamanekotei
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189806#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/sChristinaFoster
the film shattered several records Universal Pictures
http://www.librarything.com/profile/sChristinaFoster
the film shattered several records Universal Pictures
2102wonderY
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189889
http://www.librarything.com/profile/cnewton61
Haven't we seen cnewton before? Serial spam - yuck!
http://www.librarything.com/profile/cnewton61
Haven't we seen cnewton before? Serial spam - yuck!
213MarthaJeanne
Ha! I thought that one was going to turn into spam!
219lilithcat
Live streaming:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189944 (two posts - both spam)
http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeVillar
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189944 (two posts - both spam)
http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeVillar
227MarthaJeanne
Someone was last. It's gone now, and I never saw it.
228Lyndatrue
Hey, at least it's funny
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189965#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/kldposawv
http://www.librarything.com/topic/189965#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/kldposawv
234MarthaJeanne
But I won't flag if I haven't seen the spam.
238MarthaJeanne
That one was gone very quickly.
244MsMaryAnn
New profiles:
airport parking http://www.librarything.com/profile/rocketparking
Network Security http://www.librarything.com/profile/TELCO-TECH-GmbH
airport parking http://www.librarything.com/profile/rocketparking
Network Security http://www.librarything.com/profile/TELCO-TECH-GmbH
246rsterling
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)
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
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.
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
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.
But definitely something to keep an eye on.
249rsterling
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
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
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
http://www.librarything.com/topic/190066
http://www.librarything.com/profile/ner1949
again favorite read aloud books for 4th grade
http://www.librarything.com/profile/ner1949
again favorite read aloud books for 4th grade
2592wonderY
snuck one in at a different group
http://www.librarything.com/topic/190064#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/esums
http://www.librarything.com/topic/190064#
http://www.librarything.com/profile/esums
263zjakkelien
>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
These are gone.
2722wonderY
>271 klarusu: I believe I owe you a Coke.
Dit onderwerp werd voortgezet door Spam reporting thread #36.