Spammer: m2jalali?

http://drupal.org/user/291210/track

Wow, okay. It looks like this might be one of the most thorough and convincing spambots on the site ... or, possibly, a genuine Drupal user who just occasionally lapses into insane and unrelated posts.

A lot of his posts seem really genuine until you spot that it's a repetition - word for word - of a post a few hours or days earlier: compare ajax & Node Gallery jcarousel and ajax & Node GalleryNode Gallery jcarousel, amfphp and flex4.5 and flex 4.5, access global variable drupal into another php files and access global variable of drupal into another php files. Then every now and then he'll throw in a link to his website (http://drupal.org/node/1317112), which does at least appear to be a Drupal site.

The problem is, he's so convincing that I'm reluctant to just nuke him. He's clearly using drupal, he's posting coherent (if poorly-constructed) questions about the API and interface. It's just this occasional suspicious behaviour that's raising warning flags for me.

I guess I just need someone more harsh to step up and bite that bullet.

Anyway, I've scrubbed his QuickLaTeX issue. For reference, issue content follows:

QuickLaTeX.com is a free web service aimed to help people to include mathematical formulas&graphics into the web pages easily and without sacrificing flexibility and high quality of LaTeX system.
QuickLaTeX renders it to the image stored on the server and returns URL of that image. User inserts URL into web page in place where formula should be. Next time when visitor opens that web page in the browser formula is shown.
This process can be easily automated by means of QuickLaTeX-enabled plugins for your favorite CMS (Wordpress, Drupal, etc.).
New version of QuickLaTeX is out – 3.7.7. Besides improvements in general functionality it includes special features for chemistry-oriented web sites:

Support of myChemistry environment \begin{rxn} ...\end{rxn} directly in the text (do not forget to include myChemistry into global/local preamble). Check examples on myChemistry home page.
Correct support of ChemFig package, no tikzpicture wrapping required anymore. However you have to use [latex] ... [/latex] tags to mark ChemFig code sections. We didn’t implement support ChemFig commands directly in the text since one picture can be generated using long sequence of commands, there is no way for QuickLaTeX to know where diagram starts/ends. Read More »

With the aid of QuickLaTeX tikZ-timing diagrams can be used seamlessly in the WordPress blogs (or any other website). You can just paste tikZ-timing commands directly in the text – QuickLaTeX will compile them into images and embed in the published page.

I'm not convinced it's spam. It is double posting which we don't like.

And I saw the QuickLaTeX post and to me it reads more like a feature request. IIRC, there weren't actually any hard-coded links in the post.

There's coming back a few days later to ask the same question, and there's consistently reposting the exact same copy-pasted text. It just happens too often to be somebody getting frustrated by lack of response.

The quickLaTeX post doesn't read like a feature request - it reads like advertising copy. And I wish I'd made a note of what issue queue it was in, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't one a QuickLaTeX plugin would be an appropriate ask for.

Anyway, this is exactly my problem - I can't say I'm 100% certain, I'm very hesitant to call this one. I'm getting a lot of mixed signals from those posts.

Revisiting this one...doesn't look like the user is reposting the same thing very much anymore. I think it's safe to won't fix this.