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There is also a long standing bug that has affected a few authors where downloads for one article were being counted towards a different article. We are still finalising the corrections to ensure accuracy since we don't want to do this twice. Once we're confident we have all the dots joined together we will run a full rep recalc.
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I like the Tabs[^] in Articles category section.
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This post[^] has the message
Closed because This post is spam, abusive or otherwise inappropriate. Reported by BillWoodruff on Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:18 AM. and
Closed because The post is not clear, or is incomplete and has not been phrased in a way that allows it to be fully understood.. Reported by Chris Maunder, SAKryukov on Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:29 AM.
The "T" of the third word in each case should be lower case.
But it doesn't matter, it just looks odd. 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I want to post VB.NET related topic in Arabic Language here. Is this Language welcome here?
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If you have a problem with your English, the mentors will be only too glad to help.
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As others have pointed out, this is an English only site. If you need help, get in touch.my Arabic as near non-existant, but I know which grammatical mistakes Arab-speakers tend to make through correcting my wife's work.
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please help me with this 2 loops, to remove duplicates[^]
While I agree that the original question was vague, it was his first, and he did well in understanding what his problem was once it was explained and he was given alternatives. I understood it, at least enough to give an initial answer, and he now has his solution, a fair amount of education and is a happy bunny! I thought we were supposed to support these beginners, not make it harder for them!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Done
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Cheers!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I am glad to see you taking up the cause of an unfairly, and/or prematurely, closed question, and while my "QA Platinum" is dull-lead compared to the blinding-radiant-shine of yours, I can only hope a similar principle of justice will be applied to the travesty of the closing of this question[^], the removal of the comments, on the question, and the closing of my answer, all in a very short period of time, perhaps before the OP even had time to respond to the answer.
thanks, Bill
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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Um. Ignoring the suck-up bit, your answer is marked
Closed because This post is spam, abusive or otherwise inappropriate. Reported by BillWoodruff on Saturday, February 11, 2012 4:18 AM. You reported your own post?! 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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The solution I posted at[^]: was pre-qualified by a comment to the OP asking him to clarify if he was using WinForms (which he did not respond to), and the solution I proposed was then further clarified by the OP's response to my comment in terms of the exact spec of the "image involved."
I then made a clear statement that the solution I presented only involved use of a PictureBox in WinForms. And, I posted tested code, that I tried out out an image I manufactured myself precisely to the spec described by the OP. Not only the code, but the link to the image were provided to the OP.
I also took the trouble to round out the answer by considering under what circumstances the technique shown might not be optimal, or relevant, or might be used in other ways. I'd say I spent a minimum of half-an-hour on this answer.
I find a first vote of of -16 quite puzzling, but it does fit in with regular -16 votes any time I post anything on the Lounge that is originally creative.
I guess I have to "eat my words" now that I once boasted, here, that "I never looked at reputation" 
thanks, Bill
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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I'm puzzled that you reported your own message as Abusive...
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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....although, I've sadly done that to myself... 
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm puzzled that you reported your own message as Abusive...
Hi Chris,
I never voted down, flagged, or reported as abuse the original question which was quite appropriate: why has the OP now been punished ?
I guess I interpreted the facility to report "abuse" as also appropriate to use to report a message ... in this case my solution ... "being abused," and I believe I indicated why I reported the message in the brief text message that you can add to the report. If that was inappropriate, or I did not clearly indicate the reason: sorry about that !
So, the only way to raise the issue of an "odd" down-vote, is to report it here ?
If that's the case, I can live with that: I'm certainly a strong believer that being abusive to oneself is not constructive
However, the original post was not abusive, and my comments to get the OP to clarify the question were appropriate. And my answer is appropriate.
So, I strongly suggest your reverse the draconian solution that has been carried out here, and re-open both the original post, my comments on the original post, and my answer.
Meanwhile I will write a personal message of apology to the OP that a quite possibly legitimate question has been evidently closed because of my mistake.
The OP acted in "good faith," and his question was more specific than most, and he did reply quickly to a clarifying comment from me. Please, let's not "take it out" on him !
best, Bill
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'd say I spent a minimum of half-an-hour on this answer.
There in lies your problem. The OP most likely didn't even spend 10 minutes trying to solve their own problem and you spent 3 times that solving theirs.
As for the down-vote, you will get these and hundreds of them for no real reason at all (and none will be given either). We have all said this before but you really have to get used to it.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Slacker007 wrote: There in lies your problem. The OP most likely didn't even spend 10 minutes trying to solve their own problem and you spent 3 times that solving theirs.
I didn't realize you were psychic !
If you had seen the comment by me on the question, and IbnKhaldun's clarifying response ... which are now both removed ... perhaps your crystal ball would be less cloudy; on the other hand you might have less of a little sadistic "frisson" to tweak yourself with
In many cases on QA we have no idea if the person asking has English as their native language, or how much time they may have spent ... or what they had to do to get assistance with ... to even frame the question.
My many attempts here on this forum to suggest a simple way to clean up the current mess that is QA by a simple pre-qualifying pop-up form that requires identifying the question on several simple parameters, prior to the question's being accepted for posting: have so far born no fruit : but, we can only hope
Some questions, of course, are so obviously "gimeez" and "homework," they can be stomped immediately.
Your assumptions about how much time the OP spent on the question are simply an example of stereotypical thinking: you might want to look up the word "schadenfreude."
I spent time on the answer because it's tied in to some work I am currently doing, and, in finding one possible answer, I helped myself, as well, as I hope, the person who asked the question.
And, I also spend time on my comments and answers on QA because of the sheer pleasure of refreshing my knowledge of .NET, and the good feeling I have about CP as a helpful community ... a community from which I have learned/taken so much, and wish, to the extent of my limited abilities and time, to give back to.
For me it is a point-of-honor to validate that any code example I post on QA actually compiles and runs.
As to the down-vote: there is a well-established practice now, of reporting unusual down-votes, or patterns of down-votes on this forum.
go in peace, Bill
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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It could be that the person who replied to the spam message removed their own message.
I've removed the spam.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I thought that if a message had been replied too it couldn't be removed?
See Here[^]
No problems at all, just for clarification.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Are you sure you meant to link to that message?
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oops
Thanks Pete, I will edit.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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