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Forum reports, user reports, anything at all really would be greatly appreciated 
Mostly forum reports though.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Okay, thank you.
I can tell in advance: I see a lot of what I think are fake answers. One part of this problem is that self-answers and even self-accepting such answers formally is allowed. Some of such "answers" could be considered legitimate, but mostly they are not. If people just use the "Add your solution" to say thank you or other comments like that, I try to explain that they should use commenting instead, but total number of answer misuse grows too high...
By the way, I have a question: it it possible to opt-out doubling notification with e-mail (but leave equivalent site notifications as is)? I don't really use them. Notifications on the site are more than enough for almost all communications, and their e-mail copied are totally redundant; they even make it harder to track "real" mail on this account.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I welcome examples of that gladly.
I personally think it's a design problem. If the immediate reaction of a user is to use "Add your solution" to respond with what should be a comment, then that's a design problem we should address.
As for self-accepting answers, that's a different beast to tackle. One solution is, "well maybe we shouldn't allow self-accepting answers."
I think these are more suited to items on the Site Bugs / Suggestion forum, rather than reports. Especially if they are habitual, incorrect user behaviours. Reports are only a band-aid solution.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I know; I though I mentioned that before, and I wanted to discuss that. There are many other small problems I reported or planned to, so...
Thank you,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: By the way, I have a question: it it possible to opt-out doubling notification
with e-mail (but leave equivalent site notifications as is)? I don't really use
them.
AFAIK you can already do it, in each message you post, you have an "E-mail me if someone replies to this message" if you uncheck it you only receive the insider notifications.
Edit: What I don't know If you can leave them unchecked by default. I have tried it 2 times without success
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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I did not do it because I wasn't 100% sure about "only receive the insider notifications". If you are sure they will still be delivered (are you sure?), I'll do it immediately, appreciate it very much.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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That check box is only affecting the posts you do. It avoids receiving emails when someone answers or comments your message. I think it does not affect other contents of the site. So yes, you should still receive anything else.
However, best place to ask about is Bugs & Sugs. You will receive the 100% right answer there
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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Come'on SA,
I've hung around the Q&A for a while and I can honestly say some of your comments are slightly on the crusty side of terse. Now, we can go on for hours about the fact that a bagel is not a soft pretzel and sft pretzel is not a bagel but what the Abuse watch is really about is knowing where the grilling can legimately take place.
The answer to the problem is don't engage OP that has zero experience at asking questions. Right out of the box. As is.
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Thank you for your comment. You should not mix up "crusty" and "terse" with saying bad works to people, which is really breaking or written or unwritten code.
I know my words can be "terse" and I am ready to take responsibility for it. I'm an not saying that I'm right in all cases, but I want to stay for every word I say in this very answer. I think it makes sense and should be helpful to OP. So, please, it you want to argue against my answer, tell me what specifically is wrong, otherwise your negative note is not really motivated, event if you are right.
I don't know if you paid attention that OP removed bad works from his post later. What I can do? I only appreciate that, but trust me, they were absolutely intolerable back then.
Thank you,
—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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Ok. How about "indelicate". Forget terse. Terse caused Nikolai to jump off a bridge into the Neva dressed in women's clothing; thanks alot Apollon.
But what about the fact that specifically a 400-pointer who has only half-a-wick of a profile to his name and you going all Javert on his Jean Valjean?
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Not a big difference to me. I already explained you my point of view, we can only discuss something more concrete if you really want. I personally see nothing inappropriate. Come on, OP still needs to learn those basics, and this is what he really needs, not the "answer". Okay, if nobody says it to him, and who would be the looser?
Again, I say that the real confusion was just because you did not see original message from OP, don't know how would you react. It's removed now, and that's good, but please don't try to make me look more stupid.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Not only are you being ruthless by coming here to a forum where you know a 400-poster doesn't hang out, you don't even invite him?
More like a stab in the back. And you say
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: OP still needs to learn those basics
Huh? Forgive me ceasar, but whose garden is this once again?
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No, I did not.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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You did not get it. I say, I did not invite him, confirmed what you say.
Look, I settled the conflict with OP and went on continuing to help him, if you did not notice, and he is talking to me normally, but you cannot stop, or what? Maybe, it's time to consider your behavior, too, just to make a good company?
I always helped people even of they are rude, just try to oppose something which I think should not be tolerated, from time to time. How about you?
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: always helped people even of they are rude
Absolutely. History outs this misundersanding.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: How about you?
I fold. (there's no emoticon for jumping sheep)
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Wish you the best of luck.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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The bad words (which I haven't been able to read) were uncalled for, but I believe it wasn't entirely OP's fault. The guy had a straightforward question and, sorry to say this, but you gave him an answer that is totally not related to what was asked. Instead, you pointed out the flaws of his code, and you mentioned that he has totally no clue on the topic, which can also be true, but there are plenty of ways of saying it without offending the OP.
I think, when answering questions, we also need to be aware that each of us have different ways of learning, as well as how we accept criticisms and understand things, so we should also be responsible in phrasing our answers so that it would not look harsh for the OP. After all, isn't that the purpose of Q&A? To give developers a push on the right direction and not make them look stupid?
You and the other folks in Q&A have been providing excellent answers since before and those were really invaluable. But sometimes, it's nice to make self-evaluations once in a while if we are really following what was in the bottom of Submit Solution widget, especially the last sentence.
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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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Clean up, please!
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ rake in_the_dough
Raking in the dough
brisingr_aerowing@Gryphon-PC $ make lots_of_money
Making lots_of_money
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Both gone
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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Looks like he's nuked!
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