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by i_care_about_it

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There is a person with the alias GIJoe who has posted meaningless messages to hundreds of questions in order to initiate the autoclose function to simply get points awarded for nothing. This GIJoe person is the same
person as the one using the alias Anna777. GIJoe will pass those awarded points over to Anna777.

Do a little research and you'll see that this is true. I've included a few links to show you what I mean.

https://www.techrepublic.com//forumqa/thread_detail.jhtml?thread_id=48837

https://www.techrepublic.com//forumqa/thread_detail.jhtml?thread_id=65275

https://www.techrepublic.com//forumqa/thread_detail.jhtml?thread_id=48784

Check out ALL of GIJoe's questions, and you'll see that all of them were answered by, and points transferred to Anna777.

https://www.techrepublic.com/forumqa/thread_detail.jhtml?thread_id=75418

This is not fair to those who honestly try to answer people's questions in a genuine attempt to help them.

There's also a person with the alias jreg who is doing the same thing.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves for being so devious and underhanded.

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by shanghai sam

So,why would you post this question and give up the amount of points that you have to show that we have members that are not being honest.

If you have the proof that this is true then you can email TechRepublic and report it,with the proof that this is happening,they will get back to you.

This has been going on in one form or another since the site has been up and from what I have noticed.

Not all members use the site to help and yes it is unfair,but those that use the site for personal satisfaction and destroy the integrity to stroke their ego,for their personal gain does take away from the purpose of the site,to bring IT personal togeather to share ideas and problem solving skills.

I myself has been here for a while and have seen a number of things and I have learned to seperate the good from the bad,there has been a number of cases where dishonesty has been practiced and a number of discussions on this topic,yet it still happens.

This is not for the points,just a post of interest to let you know that some of us do try to use the site for it's intent.

So what are we to do?

Report to TechRepublic and see what response they give and withdraw your points.

by beermonster

I think you are absolutely right to raise this as an issue, at least as far as 'GIJOE' is concerned. I'd like anna777 to have the chance to reply on this though, and I hope you contacted her (I'm assuming it's a she) directly to get her side of the story, it's a pretty heavy accusation - although I do have to admit that she is getting a hell of a lot of points from mr GIJOE. As for the old argument 'we don't do it for the points' - that's true to a certain extent, but it's the points that let us know how we are faring in the techrepublic forum, and allow us to feel at least a small sense of status \ achievement as our total grows. When someone ruins that by cheating it is a bit of a shame....

I'd be interested to know what techrepublic has to say about this. I think a fix needs to be found for the irrelevant answer tactic, and anyone found to have be involved or benefitting from these tricks should have their accounts closed - thus forcing them to start from scratch. Bear in mindthat if you are caught it's no use just changing your alias - your new alias will appear on all of your past postings as well....

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