Weird duplication of issues. Fake users?
#1884776: Add Support for Core Number Field
#1871022: Add Support for Core Number Field
#1906688: Add support for Core Number Field
#1846784: Add Support to Core number field

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I don't think that's spam as it seems a legitimate request.

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Well, sort of. The first four are identical bug reports posted by four different users to the same issue queue. Seems a little weird to me.

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http://drupal.org/user/2443900/admin-nodes
http://drupal.org/user/2385506/admin-nodes
http://drupal.org/user/2387342/admin-nodes
http://drupal.org/user/2392166/admin-nodes

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yeah it may not be spam per say, but what are the odds of 4 different users posting exactly the same text? Seems more like someone trying to get traction on an issue with by pretending to be (albeit not very intelligently) 4 different users.

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More of the same
#1849836: Add Support for Core Number Field
#1690618: Add Support for Core Number Field

This issue in the same queue got me thinking
#1889246: add support for core number fields

it turns out the book "Drupal 7 Development by Example" has an example on how to create an issue in Microdata module issue queue.
People are doing exacty that..

These people are unintentional issue queue spammers - they are newbies trying to learn Drupal.
We should welcome them (and educate them a bit :)

This is the chapter of the book that describes this 'create an issue example':
http://books.google.nl/books?id=3xxb6a2fOGEC&pg=PT109&lpg=PT109

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I edited the node the example came from asking folks not to copy/paste it http://drupal.org/node/1291634 and notified the book's author about this.

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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closed during the webmaster's clean-up sprint of DrupalCon Prague.