This dude literally copied my post from 2 years ago. Asshole.

I will leave this here
https://devrant.com/rants/98589/...

I even remember reading this a loooooong time ago 😁

But isn't that a repost? Or it really happened to you?

@gitpush It really did happen

@rigobertomolina in this case I am all with you on it. And hope your little dev did improve 😀

@gitpush She’s been learning, she loves Ruby! But she’s been more interested in cooking

@rigobertomolina aha best of luck both of you 😀

Seems like there's somebody who's not gotten the point of what this amazing community is for 🤔

Removed my ++ and --'d the dupe

seems to be that -at least one other post from him was copied as well-

edit: all his posts are from a copy cat!

Aaaaaaand he's gone

@2erXre5 and now he has deleted everything.

@dfox but why do his ++ stay when he has deleted all rants and comments?

@Fast-Nop what ++ are you talking about? once an account is deleted, all votes the account ever did are deleted too

@JoshBent He deleted all his posts, but the ++ he received for these posts are still there. Just look up his profile and you'll see.

@Fast-Nop Maybe his account was soft deleted & the ++ counter cache wasn’t reset?

I’m trying to understand why anyone would do that, personality/insecurity/loneliness? or is he just a twat.

@Fast-Nop interesting, smells like cache to me

@Fast-Nop @rigobertomolina @socksAndSandles @JoshBent I think that it's because the account got banned. On @Condor account I've seen this a few times with banned users. The rants and comments disappear, but the ++ (or in some cases where there were -- challenges conducted on them --), content they ++'d and favorites remain.

@dfox
You may want to see this.

Once this was reported to me, I immediately deleted his account. We don’t tolerate any kind of plagiarism.

As for the points, not all scores are updated live. The account was deleted and eventually the score will reflect 0.

Also, if this ever happens, please, just tag me in the rant. Once someone tagged me I deleted the account in about 2 minutes. That’s the fastest way to bring it to my attention.

@dfox is there some kind of automated abuse prevention on the backend that could be used to stop this? Or is it just all manual?

@snaz I love it

@snaz perfect dialog box, we need this!! XD