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"For lazing about and discussing anything in a software developer's life that takes your fancy except programming questions"
i.e. an adequate description of what should go on in the lounge is "jawing", ergo the subject fits in perfectly.
Quizzes are of interest to many developers, as is joking around, as is bacon, as is gossip about the site, as is a moderate level of axe-grinding (preferably on non-political matters, of course, because such discussions rarely remain moderate).
Not everything suits everyone's tastes, but anyone who gets aeriated if absolutely everything is not to their tastes should be given nitro-glycerine, in one form or another*.
* I meant in pill or injection form for their blood pressure, John! Put that down!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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True, but there is a specific forum for Article Writing. Often people post a link here in the Lounge to somewhere else on the site because someone disagreed with them and they want validation. That is what this one smelt like also.
Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: is rather a perfectly acceptable lounge topic
Even though there is a forum already for that topic, I do agree you could discuss it in the Lounge. However, please do note, not you, nor the OP, nor anyone else actually discussed article quality here, really proving my point that this was more so about getting validation because someone disagreed. It really had nothing to do with having a technical discussion at all. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The motive of the poster being left aside (which you really can't prove without a doubt), this brings a poor quality article to the attention of the regulars, and that's important and valuable.
Far more valuable than a lot of other nonsense that goes on here.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: this brings a poor quality article to the attention of the regulars, and that's important and valuable.
I agree. And there is a proper place for that, not in the Lounge. Now we are going in circles. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There's always another forum to post anything. But I'm concerned because you said the author shouldn't post it in the lounge. Those are two different things.
The recommended rules are here: Posting rules for The Lounge[^]. Do you find that the post has violated one or more rules mentioned there? If the answer is no, then it's a perfectly acceptable topic for the lounge.
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I guess Rajesh's point is that there is already so much crap being posted and tolerated here, so how is this one any worse. 
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Easy, there are lots of people voting for rubbish posted by their friends.
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FaceCode ?
ProjectBook ?
Please suggest the more appropriate new name.
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Project Blue Book.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I just can't believe it got past the approval process. I went and looked at the current list of articles that need approval, and this one isn't any better than those, and they're being massively rejected.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It's all a question of timing. We can only approve or reject the articles we see on the approval list, and our Window may be anything from 8 hours to just a few minutes. The pond life that approves rubbish have the same constraints but in a different time zone.
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I'm in one of the early time zones. There are many times I have voted against approving an article and seen many concurring votes already made. Then guess what: the article appears as approved in an unmodified form. Is it a race to get the required number of approval votes before the item accumulates sufficient against approval? If so it is easy to see how a flood of supporters can override rational analysis.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Maybe they need to raise the bar as far as article approval permissions is concerned...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You got three upvotes for that.
Just sayin'.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lucky I've got 3 friends (actually 1 friend, and a young couple locked in the cellar).
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See that little orange flag at the top-right of the article?
Even though the menu partially disappears off the edge of the page, you can still use it to flag the article as "unclear", or "extremely poor quality".
If enough people agree with you, the article will then disappear.
"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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Utilized (and thanks).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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As best as I can tell from the article, the following, at the end, must be the reason you're looking for:
Having 6+ years of experience in IT Industry and having Masters Degree in Information Technology.
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Yeah, his degree may be from Bangalore Polytechnic and Laundry Services.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I agree with RyanDev that this is inappropriate for a Lounge post. You are naming and shaming an author "publicly" without even bothering to say why you think the article is unworthy.
If this article seems to you to not qualify as an article, why not post a message to "Spam and Abuse Watch," or whatever other forum(s) seem appropriate ?
Your further comments in this thread do nothing but suggest you are functioning with a racist agenda here, and I find that so unworthy of your gifted mind.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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It's not spam or abuse. It's a crappy attempt at an article that was somehow approved - and it shouldn't have been.
Comments were posted in the article (where I did, in fact, tell the author why it was crap). The article has since been "removed", along with all of the comments contained therein.
Naming and shaming should not be discouraged - that's precisely what's wrong with the world today. Everyone is so concerned with everyone else's feelings that outright crap is accepted in the name of tolerance. I'm all for inclusion, but not at the expense of a reasonable measure of quality.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 22-Aug-16 13:23pm.
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An extraordinary performance.
The final table reads:-
USA Zeroth
UK First
China Second
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All those stupid people saying we came second - they clearly can't count.
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We came first in the number of events that we took gold in.
This space for rent
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No we didn't - we came zeroth! 
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