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Article is gone. What I don't understand.... the user is over 9 years here (only message is from 2005) and right now the next thing is to plagiarize an article? Makes no sense
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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He signed up 9 years ago - but he hardly logged in at all until very recently (see his Rep graph). I'm guessing he wants to pad his CV with spurious articles.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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You are right, I had not seen in rep history. Maybe is a sleeper agent of the old spam-agency 
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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Message is gone but the account needs a couple more kicks.
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I was tempted to use the Power of Greyskull to delete it, but thought I'd leave it so others could read and administer a suitable kicking... 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I seem to recall that user before, at least the job title is familiar. It seems odd to me that a "Chief Technology Officer" is unable to figure out how to unsubscribe from an email....
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I guess it depends what the technology is!
You get "Waste Management Technicians" rather than "Bin Men" nowadays...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Waste Management Technicians
You could be right. I once heard a shoe salesman refer to himself as a "Shoe Engineer". I almost spit up all over myself.
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Last one needed done. CP 5, user 0
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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So in the beginning, there was this[^] Lounge post - Nice, a typical Lounge post like it gets posted every day.
But now the game begins. Apparently, the member has tried to get the Lounge post approved as article. which was smashed by the community:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?aid=609272&av=890409&msg=4593033#xx4593033xx[^]
Afterwards, he got that same thing approved as Tip/trick:
An example of a GUI technique known as “Recent Places list”[^]
I ain't got a problem with tips/tricks containing no source code; sometimes no source code is needed to present an idea.
What really disturbs me on this one is that the Tip/trick is just copy-pasted from his Lounge post and does not present any idea, neither source code nor anything else interesting.
It basically just says "Oh, have you heard ffrom those recent places thing?" - Freshed up with some poor screenshots edited in Paint.
Don't feel like the account needs to get nuked, but delete the Tip, at least. It is from really poor quality and has no value at all - At least in my opinion.
cheers,
Marco
Edit: Fixed the link to the Lounge post.
modified 21-Jun-13 5:07am.
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The link to the lounge post needs to be fixed...
I'm also not sure about this... Poor Quality, or Plagiarized ?
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Amitosh Swain wrote: I'm also not sure about this... Poor Quality, or Plagiarized ?
I'd go for 'Poor quality' - IMO Plagiarism is only applicable when someone else's work is copied.
Amitosh Swain wrote: The link to the lounge post needs to be fixed...
Fixed it, thank you.
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I've removed it
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks Chris
Can you have a Look at his other tips and tricks?
I just had a quick glance at them but they look like the same to me: He describes something existing but doesn't provide a concept nor any source code. All together The value of The tips and Tricks of The Said author seems to be very poor.
Cheers
Marco
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Marked as Not a question but... not sure. From the name, it seemed like it is spam,
Question[^]
User[^]
Since the account is 8 years old, but I didn't find any activity... Hacked??
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I didn't see that as a hacked account. There are a lot of people who wait for a long time to ask a question.
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But the question is not definitely fit to be in Q/A
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Playing devil's advocate, why is it definitely not fit to be in Q/A? This isn't StackOverflow - we don't have to be anywhere near as uptight as they do over there. I'd like to think we were a lot more inviting to people. I certainly don't see anything inherently wrong with the question.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: This isn't StackOverflow
K, Got it... So you say such questions are allowed in Q/A?
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I leave it to the community - I'm not pretending to be the only person who has an opinion. I just thought I'd throw an alternative point of view in there. You were right to raise the question, and hopefully people will display wisdom and maturity in pondering whether or not we should be allowing such questions.
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 That's right.
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Spam[^] <-- certainly
Spammer?????[^]
The account is 4 and a bit years old, he provided what looks like an actual answer here[^], but that was two years ago.
You choose. You decide.
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed”
“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
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