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I'm sorry if you thought I was spamming, maybe I was just putting stories out too much. But I was posting actual news stories.
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The issue is that it's your site's stories you were posting links to. If you want to advertise your site here, that's what the banner slots are for. If you look under the help menu there's a link for "advertise with us"; from there you can make contact with CPs sales team.
What you were doing was trying to masquerade promotions to your site as news stories shared by either active members of the site or as part of the CP's daily news email (articles posted by Kent). Even if your intent was pure, that's spam; and changing the name of your original account away from "SDTimes" makes it look like you knew you were in the wrong and were trying to cover up for it.
Bottom line, you screwed up; and I'm almost certain that for the next few months I won't be the only person looking suspiciously at any links to your site to make sure they're not from a new, suspected spam, account.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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PS Beware of the Streisand Effect[^]; and stop digging your hole deeper.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Christina,
Your reply here (under your real name) makes the situation a lot easier to resolve.
Whatsoever: Many members took offense in the way you have daily posted links to your site - Maybe you did it by not knowing better, however now you do. Another point which lead some members to the conclusion that you are spamming was probably the fact that all of the links pointed to articles which were written by you.
Both are absolute no-nos: Feel free to contribute to the Insider news, or the Lounge, and supply valuable content. However, the unwritten Nettiquette here is that linking to your own content is seen as a big no-go, which can lead to the deletion of your account (as it has happened already to your old account).
Please feel free to ask Sean Ewington, our main content admin, to ask him about any further information regarding what is commonly seen as spam/abuse of the site and what is generally allowed. Just drop him an email at <sean@codeproject.com> (He is a really kind guy and happy to help you, especially since we don't experience a lot of members who got their account banned and return in the kind way you did).
In the End I am glad to welcome you back to CodeProject - Please be careful what links you post, many members have a loose finger on the trigger when it comes to members who were previously banned for spamming.
Let's make this a fresh start. Welcome!
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But not for long! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Maybe I'm being paranoid, but this account[^] seems suspicious (same initials, joined today, only message is in Insider News), even though the only message so far[^] points to ZDNet.
Can anyone else smell "Special Processed American Meat"?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think you probably are. Different site; and neither ZDNet nor Mary Jo Foley need to spamvertize.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Before I reported this, I checked the post you are linking to in order to be sure these two were not already listed there.
I don't know how they do it, but there must be a bug somewhere and they are taking advantage of that.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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And second one hardly one month old profile !!! Should this not be under "bugs and sugs"?
Thanks,
Milind
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It has been already posted there. AFAIK CP is digging to find out the bug.
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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All Gone
0100000101101110011001000111001010000010
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This member[^] posted a solution almost verbatim many hours after the original solution had been added.
I felt it necessary to inform them that this is not appropriate behavior. You may view their response to my comment below.
Here is the thread[^]
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0. His reply to you is unacceptable, but the original post added nothing and you should have just marked it simply as repost without commenting.
speramus in juniperus
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Fair enough. Thank you for your input.
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Clean up has been done. Update this thread and remove the last line as whole thread exist no more.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Thanks, I was going to post the same because he replied to my message. I thought OP asked clarification in russian but quickly found that he's a spammer.
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It gone, he gone, nothing to see here! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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