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User ptc-5208287 kudo'ing all posts?

Chris3
20-Turquoise

User ptc-5208287 kudo'ing all posts?

Has anyone else noticed that user ptc-5208287 kudos posts almost instantly after a new post is posted regardless of what it is? This leads me to believe that this user is not a real person. 

 

https://community.ptc.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/27618

 

@Jaime_Lee ? Is this a real person?

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Jaime_Lee
Community Manager
(To:Dale_Rosema)

Hi, "ban" is reset.  Thanks!  JL

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I have noticed the same behavior.

 

As soon as I post a comment a kudos arrives.

 

Edit: except for this post.

Nothing arrives

Marco
TomU
23-Emerald IV
(To:Chris3)

It does seem odd that this individual has never created a single post...

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Chris3)

I was thinking the same thing...very odd.


Dale_Rosema
23-Emerald III
(To:StephenW)

They've been a member since: 08-09-2013

Last logged in on 08-13-2018

 

... and yet no post of their own.

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Dale_Rosema)

That's funny, I just got a kudo notification today that they kudo'd my post, today at 6:37 am

Maybe an email kudo, so they don't even log in ??? 

It's getting stranger by the minute.

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Dale_Rosema)

I seem to be beneficiary of *most* of the Kudo's...

 

kudo count.jpg

You've got a fan!

 

Also, I'm (tied for) #2!

 

And I just noticed, this list is ordered top down first then right to left?  That's ... odd.

--
Doug Schaefer | Experienced Mechanical Design Engineer
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StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Chris3)

I just posted a response to a question and within less than 10 seconds, I had a kudo from the aforementioned user.

Dale_Rosema
23-Emerald III
(To:StephenW)

Same here....

 

Jaime are you out there? Any update on this?

 

kudo_crazy.JPG

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Chris3)

Still getting kudo's from this user. And the user hasn't logged in to the forum since 8-13, almost a month.

 

Possibly internal PTC trying to make forum traffic look more than it really is?!?

 

It would be cool if this post was kudo'd Smiley Very Happy

 

@Jaime_Lee

Jaime_Lee
Community Manager
(To:StephenW)

@StephenW

 

Thank you StephenWilliams for calling this out again. 

 

I assure you this user is under investigation.

 

But, you are awesome so your posts deserve kudos!

Dale_Rosema
23-Emerald III
(To:Jaime_Lee)

Were you on vacation?

Jaime_Lee
Community Manager
(To:Dale_Rosema)

@Dale_Rosema

 

I am happy to share with you my vacation plans in a private message, but I don't think the rest of the community really cares about that Smiley Wink

 

Stay tuned on this mysterious kudoer!

 

JL

TomU
23-Emerald IV
(To:Jaime_Lee)

The same user just kudo'd this post.

 

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Detailing-MBD-MBE/Poor-graphics-in-Creo-2-when-working-with-models-of-thin-sheets/m-p/571328

 

The kudo makes no sense.  The original poster is asking for help and no help has been offered yet.  I don't understand the point of kudo'ing his question.

 

(Edit:  Forgot the link to the post.)

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:TomU)

And all without signing on to the community in a month.  Ninja kudos!!. Man Frustrated

It has do be done via email and I think it started about the time the email reply/kudo links were added as an option.

I'm really thinking this is a BOT that is getting the emails and accessing the links. The email reply link is not doing anything but the kudo email is generating kudos for every post in the boards that is subscribed to.

The FIRST "kudo" given was to the announcement of the "reply by email"...EVIDENCE...

ODD-KUDOS.jpg

STEVEG
21-Topaz I
(To:StephenW)

I just created a post and got kudo'd as well as the last several posts I created.

STEVEG
21-Topaz I
(To:StephenW)

It seems I am getting kudo's for everything I post now. 

 

@Jaime_Lee

Have you been able to find anything out about this?

Jaime_Lee
Community Manager
(To:STEVEG)

@StephenW @STEVEG

 

ptc-5208287  should no longer be an issue.  Please continue to bring suspicious community activity to my attention or "notify moderator" for a quicker response.

 

We appreciate this valuable input to keep our community organized and useful for all.

 

Jaime Lee

STEVEG
21-Topaz I
(To:Jaime_Lee)

I didn't think you can notify administrator on a kudo.  I just looked and couldn't find out how.

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Jaime_Lee)

The "kudo-bot" is back today, maybe an encore performance??

 

I guess the "ban" wasn't permanent.

 

ptc-5208287 

 

kudo-bot.jpg

Dale_Rosema
23-Emerald III
(To:StephenW)

I noticed that too! I was just going to check on that.

Jaime_Lee
Community Manager
(To:Dale_Rosema)

Hi, "ban" is reset.  Thanks!  JL

STEVEG
21-Topaz I
(To:TomU)

And the mystery thickens.  Who is this masked ku-do-errr?

Chris3
20-Turquoise
(To:STEVEG)

As others have alluded to I wouldn't be surprised if it is a bot that is setup to scrape the forum. There are other websites that use scraped data from PTC community posts with (sometimes) better Google page ranks in order to harvest ad revenue.

 

The bot likely follows all of the links in the email to scrape more data. One of the links it is following is the kudo link which in turn is kudoing all of the posts.

StephenW
23-Emerald II
(To:Jaime_Lee)

At this point, the user simply needs to be PERMANENTLY deactivated. 

 

cmorfin
19-Tanzanite
(To:StephenW)

Hi there

 

This is happening to me since today, all my answers are kudo'd right away ... I do appreciate that my answers are indeed great ( 🙂 ) but this does look odd.

 

Was this user disabled at some point ?

 

Thanks

Christophe

 

Jaime_Lee
Community Manager
(To:cmorfin)

Hi, this user had a temporary ban placed on it that ended.  Lithium is investigating what is happening with this user.  It is easier if they can analyze the action in real-time.  If I don't hear anything today I will set up another temporary ban, but don't be surprised if your kudo count goes down when we remove this account completely.

 

But, I am sure you all deserve many kudos 😉

I got over half of my Kudos from this robot these days.

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