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Curious about some locks at CNET forums

Mar 3, 2015 7:17PM PST

I roll up on a thread in the help forums, see it's locked, read it anyway, at the end someone has locked it due to discovering the same person asking similar question at some other computer help forum.

1) people aren't supposed to check multiple sources? Not for computers, but I do that all the time on other matters. What if some news site said they locked a thread because you commented on the same subject at some other news site?

2) If you think someone spammed the site, why not just say so when locked?

3)I have seen where people ask in one site, go a couple days without a solution, so ask in another site, and so on. Do they get locked?

In past we determined if they were spamming, not just if they posted a question on more than one site.

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If you mean the file transporter discussion ...
Mar 3, 2015 7:23PM PST

I considered that spam (without actually saying it indeed) as soon as he gave the link to the service selling those devices he had such nice pics of in his first post (which he litterally repeated in 2 other forums).
But it might be an error of judgement.

Kees

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might be a "she"
Mar 3, 2015 7:42PM PST

I ran across several sites using the same female model in different situations. Or maybe the seller's daughter. I was curious about the approach because I'd noticed it before, wondered what was with it, if there was some new rule I'd missed.

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... and we're all watched over by
Mar 5, 2015 5:10AM PST

Mods of loving grace...
Happy