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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorRodMcGuire
    • CommentTimeJan 1st 2011

    I think JB used to stay on top of this and delete such comments, but the nCafe currently has 2 questionable recently new entries:

    1) This crackpot entry.

    2) This entry with the only purpose being to include a url to “cures for candida”.

    The 2nd should be deleted and probably the 1st unless crackpots are kept for amusement purposes.

    Who has the privileges to delete such these days?

    • CommentRowNumber2.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJan 1st 2011
    • (edited Jan 1st 2011)

    Who has the privileges to delete such these days?

    All nnCafé hosts have the same privileges to edit everything and always had. And we all do and did try to look after spam and related, as far as I am aware.

    I have removed the two comments you pointed out.

    • CommentRowNumber3.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2018
    • (edited Aug 6th 2018)

    Quite a lot of n-Café spam accumulating. Leaving it alone encourages more which diminishes the usefulness of the Café, so can one of the ‘hosts’ do a bit of cleaning, please! ;-)

    ( Later: someone has. Thanks.)

    • CommentRowNumber4.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2018

    A repeat of some old spam on the Café.

    • CommentRowNumber5.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2018

    There are at least 6 pieces of spam posted today one the Café. (See Hector and then look at other comments from today (Nov 1)).

    • CommentRowNumber6.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeNov 1st 2018

    10 in fact. All deleted now. Thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber7.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeNov 11th 2018

    A pair of spam comments here at the n-café.

    • CommentRowNumber8.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeDec 30th 2018

    More spam at the cafe, here

    • CommentRowNumber9.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2019
    • (edited Feb 14th 2019)

    Once again, Spam at the café, here, latest addition.

    • CommentRowNumber10.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2019

    Someone has put something on the texnical_issues section of the Café, the result of which is that any of the links there give the following.

    XML Parsing Error: prefix not bound to a namespace Location: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/texnical_issues.html#c051639 Line Number 1913, Column 7:

    There is then an html line (copied here but not showing).

    • CommentRowNumber11.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2019

    <linearGradient id="squ2" x1="0" y1="0" x2="1" y2="-.6" xlink:href="#squ1" /> is the bit that that’s not showing in Tim’s #10.

    • CommentRowNumber12.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2019

    Spam at Light Mills in the café.

    • CommentRowNumber13.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJun 10th 2019
    • (edited Jun 10th 2019)

    Probable spam at ’The Two Cultures of Mathematics’ in the café. The ’author’ gives the name ’sames Review’ and that is the sole content of the post, but that is as a link.

    • CommentRowNumber14.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJun 10th 2019

    Thanks. Removed now.

    • CommentRowNumber15.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2019

    Spam in the café at HoTT at JMM. The authors name is charlibilson

    • CommentRowNumber16.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2019

    Removed. Thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber17.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeDec 31st 2019
    • (edited Dec 31st 2019)

    Again Spam in the Café. Flipkart cashback….. at Mathematical Images.

    • CommentRowNumber18.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeDec 31st 2019

    Deleted. Thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber19.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2020

    A lot of spam in the thread ‘Letter from Grothendieck’, at least 6 entries.

    • CommentRowNumber20.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeFeb 3rd 2020
    • (edited Feb 3rd 2020)

    Two spam comments at https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/09/nlab_migration_done.html (the two most recent: April 8 last year and Feb 2)

    • CommentRowNumber21.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeFeb 26th 2020

    New spam at https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/07/light_mills.html#c057355

    • CommentRowNumber22.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeFeb 26th 2020

    Deleted. Thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber23.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2020

    New spam at https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/03/some_puzzles.html#c057905 It looks to be a Bulgarian advert for printer toner!

    • CommentRowNumber24.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2020

    Thanks. We’ve had a few from there.

    • CommentRowNumber25.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2020

    New spam at https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/03/some_puzzles.html#c015603. Again it looks to be Bulgarian.

    • CommentRowNumber26.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2020

    Thanks. Persistent aren’t they.

    • CommentRowNumber27.
    • CommentAuthorRodMcGuire
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2020
    • (edited May 18th 2020)

    https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/02/lakatos_as_dialectical_realist.html#c057927

    is a rather incoherent comment seemingly by a high school math teacher but links to a Turkish, not Bulgarian, health and beauty site.

    • CommentRowNumber28.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2020

    I wondered about that but it would take quite a bit of research to find such a suitable thread given the subject matter of Lakatos’s Proofs and Refutations.

    • CommentRowNumber29.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2020
    • (edited Jun 11th 2020)

    New Spam at the Café. Under the modular flow… there are two new posts, one labelled ‘real’ which I have not looked at and one with SEO in the title. (and the spammer can’t spell!)

    • CommentRowNumber30.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2020

    Thanks. Removed.

    • CommentRowNumber31.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJul 25th 2020
    • (edited Jul 25th 2020)

    New entry at the café: Thanks for sharing such a valuable content. Please bring more content for us. Please Visit my site for checking knowledge.

    i.e. this is litter heading towards Spam. The entry is in the Crossed Homomorphism discussion.

    • CommentRowNumber32.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2020

    Spam in the café: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/07/light_mills.html#comments.

    • CommentRowNumber33.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2020

    What is it about that post? Can we shut down comments on it? The potential for someone to come along 12 years later and give a comment that outweighs all the spam that’s received over the years seems very slight.

    • CommentRowNumber34.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2020

    Deleted, thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber35.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeOct 16th 2020
    • (edited Oct 16th 2020)

    Light Mills spammed three times this morning!

    (Edit : some time later, two other spam items have been added. They look like old ‘friends’!!)

    • CommentRowNumber36.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeOct 21st 2020

    New spam : https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/09/texnical_issues.html#c056844 from today. One obviously spam and two that look like ’wise guys’ trying to post for fun! These are the last three in the chron listing.

    • CommentRowNumber37.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2020

    Why it matters? has a suspect entry. The ‘author’ is situs idn poker, and it is the second time the post has appeared. Yesterday I thought it had been removed but this morning it has reappeared.

    • CommentRowNumber38.
    • CommentAuthorjim_stasheff
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2020
    Thanks to all doing the dirty work
    • CommentRowNumber39.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeDec 31st 2020

    New spam: Stock market trading apps in India here.

    • CommentRowNumber40.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2021
    • (edited Feb 22nd 2021)

    Slightly suspect entry in the café: It just says:

    Important Gyan

    Its very useful and Quality article. Thanks a lot. all will enjoy and require knowledge.

    • CommentRowNumber41.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2021
    • (edited Feb 24th 2021)

    ‘Advertising’ spam on the Café at Jobs at Riverside zee, but also the next entry from [diana], which sends you to a Pakistani site.

    • CommentRowNumber42.
    • CommentAuthorDavidRoberts
    • CommentTimeFeb 28th 2021

    More spam at the Light Mills post.

    I think after all this time it might be an idea to close comments on that thread, since it seems to be a particularly strong magnet for spam, and it’s not like it is attracting thoughtful and meaningful contributions.

    • CommentRowNumber43.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2021

    Probable spam at Why it matters.

    • CommentRowNumber44.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 14th 2021

    Spam at TWF285

    • CommentRowNumber45.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2021
    • (edited May 31st 2021)

    New spam at here and here

    • CommentRowNumber46.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJun 9th 2021
    • (edited Jun 9th 2021)

    There is a spurious entry here. It is signed ’assignment writing service’!

    • CommentRowNumber47.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2021

    Probable new spam in the Post ‘Why it matters?’

    its very nice informative post https://sites.google.com/view/godhand/agen-togel-terpercaya Posted by: Bandar Togel Online on July 17, 2021 6:44 AM

    • CommentRowNumber48.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeJul 18th 2021

    Deleted now. Thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber49.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2021

    New spam in the Café. Three copies of the same text here, posted 16 August 2021.

    • CommentRowNumber50.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2021

    Thanks!

    • CommentRowNumber51.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2021
    • (edited Aug 18th 2021)

    More spam in the Café

    • CommentRowNumber52.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2021
    • (edited Aug 18th 2021)

    Persistent!

    • CommentRowNumber53.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeSep 1st 2021
    • (edited Sep 1st 2021)

    Seems to be Spam at ‘Why it matters’. The person who posts under that name (paragon….) seems to be a spammer. Note there are two such posts.

    • CommentRowNumber54.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2021

    New spam on the Café ar ‘Re: Integral Octonions (Part 11)’ and then repeated below under another heading.

    • CommentRowNumber55.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeNov 22nd 2021

    Probable spam at Why it matters' signed bykapaljudi’.

    • CommentRowNumber56.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2021

    New spam at ’Why it matters?’.

    • CommentRowNumber57.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2021

    Yet more at ‘From Set Theory to Type Theory’ advertising some journals.

    • CommentRowNumber58.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeNov 29th 2021

    Thanks.

    • CommentRowNumber59.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeDec 25th 2021
    • (edited Dec 25th 2021)

    Suspected advertising for a journal, therefore Spam, here

    • CommentRowNumber60.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMar 20th 2022

    Possible spam here

    • CommentRowNumber61.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMar 24th 2022

    New spam here. This is an advert for a game!

    • CommentRowNumber62.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeApr 16th 2022
    • (edited Apr 16th 2022)

    Strange post, here on the Café. The link for the ‘poster’, Emily Parker, gives an advertisement.

    • CommentRowNumber63.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2022
    • (edited Apr 24th 2022)

    New suspect post here.

    • CommentRowNumber64.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2022
    • (edited Apr 28th 2022)

    New spam here.

    • CommentRowNumber65.
    • CommentAuthorGuest
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2022
    The link goes to the wrong place Tim Porter
    • CommentRowNumber66.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2022

    I had removed the spam. Thanks, Tim.

    • CommentRowNumber67.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2022

    Spam here. The name yash connects to a page selling solar panels in Brisbane!!!

    • CommentRowNumber68.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 26th 2022

    Spam here. Two items.

    • CommentRowNumber69.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2022

    More spam here and here.

    • CommentRowNumber70.
    • CommentAuthorDavid_Corfield
    • CommentTimeMay 27th 2022

    Thanks, Tim. All 4 items deleted.

    • CommentRowNumber71.
    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2022

    Two new bits of spam, here and here.

    • CommentRowNumber72.
    • CommentAuthorUrs
    • CommentTimeJun 1st 2022

    Incidentally, it is not clear to me that the nForum should host this noise which is caused by another site. Please consider having this activity at an appropriate place.