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The problem is, if the question is "old" ... I can't remember how many years old the question was, and someone posts an answer with a link to a site that they are involved with, and that site involves some sort of financial remuneration, ... why post a response? Is it not a case of searching for an opportunity to promote a particular site, regardless of the age of a question? Spam.
Where do we draw the line?
If that answer had been posted to a recent, unanswered question, then it's a perfectly valid response (although a disclaimer really ought to be included)... but reviving old posts to essentially advertise your own company is just spam (or abuse, or choose a word)
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I agree with you.
But, something one can't see on the Question: The question came back to the top of the list because of some tests done by Matthew Dennis. Therefore the member did not search explicitly for it.
Anyway not a big thing.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yes, it has everything to do with spamming, or site-driving if you prefer.
Answering a five years old question, posting a link to a commercial site you (the poster) are directly involved in, is definitely spamming.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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The question came back to the top of the list because of some tests done by CP stuff.
Anyway not a big Thing.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Again, I disagree: the question came back because the reported account posted an answer to it.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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No definitely not! But I agree you can not see that on the answer. It was a "lucky shot" that I was online at that time and could observe some test answers from Matthew Dennis (CP stuff) for this question 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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title says
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Uninstalled.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The OP is claiming he wrote the other articles as well.
Investigating...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is very likely that it's the same author, see this[^] discussion.
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Thank you for your message. I am the article author (the author for all three articles) and I can ensure you that the CodeProject article is NOT a copy/paste from download.com. The codeproject article is at least three times bigger, has code samples and screenshot attached - you won't find all these on that download.com page.
Yes, some phrases in the download.com and codeproject.com texts are similar - because I am a programmer rather than writer and cannot write down three completely different texts about same thing, please excuse me for that 
I would be very pleased if you'll agree to publish that article on this site.
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You're certainly not obligated to do so but as a suggestion: You might want to change your CodeProject-member name to something less anonymous. (That might have avoided this episode in the first place.)
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I just attempted to approve your article but then it already got approved as a tip/trick. However, the member telling you that it's not appropriate to be published as an article was wrong.
I'll try to summon @sean-ewington and ask him nicely to change the type of your publication back to article
Edit: I just saw this post[^] which probably should get sorted first.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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@Sean-Ewingtonn
This was a (very understandable) false positive: Can you please clear the account of "Abuse" markers and re-instate the article to the moderation queue?
He sent me this:
I have created that web page on that site, please refer http://www.oxetta.com/about.html
which does confirm he is the original author.
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I have stood in the path of the tornado.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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You are a hero sir! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not related to this forum but to the article:
The download does not contain the sources for the library. There are only the DLL and LIB files and the sample project. As far as I remember such articles are not welcome.
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Thank you very much for understanding, guys! Now the article is published, and I am happy 
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Please take a look at the message above yours, from Jochen Arndt.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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At the moment, I am not planning to publish the DLL source code. However, the published article IS a solution and will be helpful for thousands of developers, so I hope you'll allow it to be published.
I spent about a year developing Oxetta. If I was able to find anything similar at that time, I will never start this job. After 12 months of development I would like to share the result with the others so no other programmer will have to do the same job again only because he/she needs to add printing capabilities to his/her software...
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