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Thanks for looking into it, but I wasn't able to make that connection. Maybe you are able to see their email address and that's how you made the connection? In any event, perhaps they should modify their articles to link to the ones posted in other places.
Also, remember that my post here wasn't just to report the abuse... it's also to report the fact that I have no means of reporting abuse without coming here.
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aspdotnetdev wrote: perhaps they should modify their articles to link to...
so you can flame them with some "repost!" messages?
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If somebody managed to repost something THEY already posted, they would probably catch some flack from me.
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aspdotnetdev wrote: Thanks for looking into it, but I wasn't able to make that connection.
The author of the tip/trick has a CP profile where he's specified India as country. The blog's About page says the author is Noman Tariq from Islamabad, Pakistan.
I know that Indians and Pakistanis look kinda similar in appearance, but these two seem to be 2 different people. 
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Yeah, and the other article this author plagiarised was copied from an article posted by somebody with a Chinese sounding name (I may be incorrect about that... I'm not good at figuring out the origin of names). The Chinese sounding name, by the way, was not Noman Tariq.
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Pinal Dave is not a Chinese name, it's an Indian name 
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Yeah, that's a copy! Not sure why someone would do this. If it was for the false credit, what good would using a bizarre pseudonym like sadanandms do? 
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Pinal
Pinal is the county where I live (in Arizona)... so maybe he is an indian.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Pinal is the county where I live (in Arizona)... so maybe he is an indian.
Since when have we started saying that place names in this country are original? 
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Looks like some of the content was copied verbatim from here. When copying verbatim, you are not using your own knowledge on the topic to write about it; you are copying somebody else, and you should in the very least link out to them as a source.
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The little "report" flag at the bottom right of the tip doesn't do the trick?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hmmm, unless I am blind, I don't think that's there for me. I see a "Tools" box that contains "Print", "Share", "Discuss", "Watch answers", "Watch comments". And below that are two links, "Report Bug" and "Suggestions". And floating to the bottom right of the question are "Permalink" and "Bookmark". And to the left of that is the author's username. Am I missing something?
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To the right, and in the same group as "Permalink" "improve tip"
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Oh, I think I see what's going on. It must be a permission bug. On my tip, I see "Permalink", "Bookmark", "Improve Tip/Trick", and the flag to report it as abuse. On this tip/trick, all I see is "Permalink" and "Bookmark".
I know there are some tips/tricks where I should not be able to edit them (that is a setting the user sets when they create or edit the tip/trick... that is, the minimum level somebody has to be in order to edit their tip/trick). However, that setting seems to also be applied to the report flag. I imagine that's a bug, as I would think that anybody should be able to report a tip/trick.
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Try now
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Looks good, I can see the flag now. 
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Can we remove the ability to set text as bold in the comments sections of the QA forum: Example here[^]
It looks like shite and it is hard to read. Also, I think we should restrict the comments to a max character length of say 150-200...if that. If they are going to put that much effort into a comment they should make it an answer or leave no comment at all.
--my $0.02
modified on Monday, December 6, 2010 12:17 PM
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Slacker007 wrote: If they are going to put that much effort into a comment they should make it an answer or leave no comment at all.
That comment was posted by the person that posted the question. Rather than post a fake answer or a convoluted comment, they should update the original question to include the information that should have been included in the first place.
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Agreed. So how does the website (CP) enforce something like that? I am seeing a lot of bold comments in the QA forum these days.
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Comments by the author of the question are made bold to make it easier to see their comment.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Ok. I still feel that it would be a good idea if the comment length was limited to 100-150 characters max. Just an idea.
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I decided that this question[^] wasn't a good question so I hit delete. the question has now disappeared. (I'm assuming site mods still have some access to it and it's not really fully deleted from the database)
I think perhaps deleting might be better implemented as a softer delete where the question is labelled as deleted but is still visible (possibly only when navigated to directly, and not showing up in the usual search results), and no more answers are accepted, but the deleter is still able to post a message to the OP to explain why the question was deleted.
In this case I have no way of telling the OP how he should improve his question for next time.
Also, perhaps deleting should be a vote based action, requiring consensus from several members before the question is deleted.
(On the same subject, perhaps some guidelines on when 'delete' should be used - was this a good candidate for delete, or should I have just voted down?)
Simon
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Simon P Stevens wrote: In this case I have no way of telling the OP how he should improve his question for next time.
Well, why not just tell about all the issues to user via a comment first and then delete the question? This way, you can convey OP about how to improve the question next time and also delete the current one.
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Exactly.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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