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Well, we certainly warned him ... 
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Kats2512 wrote: Opening old posts and posting solutions.
I was told by Mr. Richard Deeming (who closed all of my articles this time ) following thing:
Re: IDN Awareness Raising answers getting tagged as "Spam". Why? - C# Discussion Boards[^]
I quote:
Quote: It's been raised in B&S before. The conclusion is that adding new answers to old questions is perfectly fine, so long as you're adding something new to the discussion.
The reasoning I got in the mail is: "This is not an answer to a question".
I was told that adding something new to the question is acceptable. I was adding new information. Sadly I will not be access any of the answers that were closed. This time there were absolutely no links to any of the personal blogs.
It would have been good if my answers were accessible/visible in some restricted space itself so that they could be put to others to judge.
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@Kats2512, I was opening questions which had a very specific background. The criterion was not them being old. A careful look at the questions would have given a good idea.
Kats2512 wrote: Opening old posts and posting solutions.
I definitely was posting solutions with all the understanding I had developed through the interaction I got from the thread (you quoted) that I myself had started. Sad that you think that that thread was about warning me.
Kats2512 wrote: Some answers also contain links to an external product of some sort.
"External product of some sort" ??? Really? Let me list those external products of some sorts:
1. Link to MSDN (.NET)
2. Link to python libraries from PyPI
Where is the due dilligence?
Why is just getting reported in this forum automatically makes someone liable for action?
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And what about the link that went to a blog with a donate button? Site driving!
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Which was that link? Please do provide. I had not posted any such link whatsoever. I would request site moderators to please look at this and decide who is being truthful here.
If even one of my answers seemed to have any such links, I would totally own it up and leave the forum myself. If no such link is found, I would definitely want you Kats2512 to reconsider alleging others with such grievous accusations.
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I will not provide the link as I will be doing the same site driving as you. However, it was your GNU link that had options to join the site, donate and shop. When I clicked shop it took me to a page that was selling t-shirts, socks, hoodies and some other items!
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It was a link on the gnu.org site. Specifically it was pointing to the libidn2 library. Libidn2 is an implementation of the IDNA2008, TR46 specifications (RFC 5890, RFC 5891, RFC 5892, RFC 5893, TR 46). Posting here for everyone to judge if it is site driving or giving technical information.
GNU IDN Library - Libidn - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation[^]
It is a GNU.ORG website for god's sake !
You scrolled that page. Found the "Shop" link by the "Free Software Foundation" and clicked over there yourself and are accusing me of driving people here to that site?
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You posted at least 8 "solutions" in a short period of time, all of them to old, previously answered posts, all on a similar subject. You are inconsistent in your "recommendations" in your solutions and all of them (that I personally saw) contained links, largely to different websites each time.
These are all behaviours we have seen before from either spammers, or new members attempting to gain enough reputation points to be able to post spam in their profiles.
You've been told about how behaviours can be perceived and interpreted before and I understand that you have had an account suspended before for similar behaviours. How hard can it be to grasp what is acceptable behaviour on a website? You don't appear to want to take the advice that was offered - not everyone gets the opportunity to discuss this. My advice would be to let it go and be more careful in future Neither the Lounge nor this forum are the right vehicle for this debate - take it up with the Site Admin
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Thank you for the genuine advice Chill60.
I had said it before and I will say it again. I am working towards sensitizing the developer community about Internationalized Domain Names and I was only answering questions which had that background. The links I was giving were to the libraries which were specific to the Questioner's programming language and the question itself. They were from different websites because they were talking to different programming languages.
I am not crying over being put through moderation everytime I post something. I understand that it helps the site be a better place for collaboration to ward off potential spammers. My persistent request remains that moderators take that into account before taking summary actions.
Kat2510 reported me for posting a link to GNU.ORG website. Which subsequently deleted all my genuine answers, including those which did not have any links at all.
I totally agree with your suggestion of going to the site Admin. Only if I knew how to, I would have.
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Each of your solutions would have been separately "reported" by 3 separate members in order to be removed. For accounts they have to be reported by 10 separate members.
One way of summoning the Site Administrators to look into a matter is to "tag" them with an @ symbol - but you would need to know their names, and how their tag is written on the site in order to do that (see below)
You could post in the Bugs and Suggestions[^] forum, but this doesn't seem to fully fit.
In this case it would probably be best to email them? Right at the bottom of each page, and to the right, is a copyright notice - the word CodeProject is a link to email to webmaster@codeproject.com
Or you can get a list of who works at CP (and contact details) by clicking on "help" at the top of this page and then "About Us"
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Thank you for the useful insights CHill60. Will follow up on that.
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I would suggest not putting any links in your answers. Answering old questions is OK, but all answers should be self-contained on CodeProject and ideally not require any links. If you find a question that requires a link as an answer, please move onto another question.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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That is what I assumed would work Sean. When I sought community help to get me along the rules of engagement here, I was told different things by different people. Accordingly I took away links to personal blogs. Made the answers short and very specific to the questions. Was told that giving links to reference manual pages of various programming languages is fine. It seems everyone has different yardstick to label people/behavior in a bad way.
Also there are far too many tags that can be given to people "Rep hunter", "Site driver", "Spammer and Abuser". The one I am looking for is a "Campaigner for a cause". No one is willing to get into the contents of the responses before hitting the reporting button it seems.
I am working for a cause of popularizing the Internationalized Domain Names and ensuring that the domain validation and email validation implementations do not discriminate between latin based domains and Unicode based domains. That is severely affecting their adoption worldwide. Hence I was trying to respond to all the questions (old or new) that talked to the subject. CodeProject was one of the forums which I had insisted to be included as a part of the effort.
Unfortunately I will have to walk away.
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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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Maybe this user was hacked? Can someone take a look?
Recent posts are unlike earlier posts.
3082487 Thornik
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