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What was his offence?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Every answer he's posted takes the form, "Visit [spam site] to find the answer".
"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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A series of "Answers" (not all of them) that were nothing more than links to his own blog (discontinued), his newer blog or to an e-magazine (to which he appears to also be part of)
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Ah Ok... I just did not see any new messages so I was confused.
Sorry about that
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Ah yes ... I found it by accident courtesy of someone re-answering an old question 
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I.e. this one: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=159004&aid=875105[^]
CHill60 wrote: Actually I think it might be plagiarised - code looks very familiar to some of the work from here[^] - even some of the words "get fancy" from the same source.
...and in a similar order.
I'm not happy we should publish this: I suspect the link was the purpose of the publication, and wonder if the plan was to add it back later, or if it's a hidden link (as we have seen elsewhere)?
Given that the OP joined today, this looks more suspicious every time I look at it.
I'm leaning towards spam / plagiarism, but...I'm just not sure!
Didn't want to reply there (and can't direct email you) in case it gives the OP ideas!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good thinking!
I thought it over and decided to report it as plagiarism over spam - not sure why I chose one over the other. I definitely leant in the direction of abuse of one sort or another!
Was still debating with myself on whether to report it here or not - but like you I'm getting more leery about it the more I look at it.
Shall I or will you? Report here that is
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CHill60 wrote: Shall I or will you? Report here that is
No need for the moment - it's gone, and looks like closed by author, which kinda confirms our thoughts! 
If it comes back?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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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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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Spam erased; spammers lined up ready for the firing squad. Do they want a cigarette? Who cares? Fire!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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removed
modified 10-Feb-15 2:37am.
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4 answers to same question should be reported as repost. Other than that, there is nothing to report. Something should not be reported as spam just because the Poster owns the Blog/Site. It should be, if its on large scale. This is not the case.
Nothing to report here. Request you to remove this post.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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I was confused thats why iam not mention the member.I will remove the post.Thank you  .
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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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Should we add this as an option when reporting questions?
What I'd like to do is add a watermark or template to the question editor along the lines of
Subject:
Quote: How do I...?
Text:
Quote: I am trying to... [state what you're trying to do]
The problem I'm seeing is ...[state the error or incorrect behaviour]
I have searched
a) [Google]
b) etc
I have tried
a) [What I tried, what happened]
b) [What I tried, what happened]
c) ...
The goal here is to guide members on how to ask a question in a way that will get an answer. If a member, given this guidance, still can't pose their question sensibly, then they get reported and possibly removed.
The aim isn't to turn everyone into a bunch of unhelpful, unforgiving pricks. The goal is to guide, to teach, and to ultimately remove those who simply don't want to make an effort when they are asking for help.
Would this work? Would it help? Would it be counter-productive? Or would this do nothing?
@BillWoodruff: I'd particularly like your input here.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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In my opinion this could help in some of the cases. However, the ones that are in a hurry to leave the question will probably also disregards the watermark. I'm afraid that the majority of incomplete questions are the latter ones.
What if instead of using a 'template' the question would actually be split into several portions meaning text boxes that would have to be filled with some amount of characters. Two (or three at max) separate and mandatory fields could actually stop the person to think about what and how to ask.
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The option of separate boxes has been raised a number of times and my issue is that not all questions fit into such a rigid template. Sometimes there simply isn't code, sometimes there's several sets of code, sometimes the person has tried something, sometimes they don't even know where to start, sometimes there's nothing to "try": it's simply a question.
Further, we see enough questions in the title. I'd expect we'd see the entire question in the first box, regardless.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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