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The indefinite article is definitely wrong.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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The whole article is wrong! So my article should reflect that. 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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He gone - and his message won't last long, I suspect...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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If any of the answers have copyright issues then it's abuse, otherwise it's merely lazy.
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It's not just abuse, this is fraud, plagiarism. By the way, this account was disabled. I also reported in this forum. And I insisted to ban this "author" based on just one post.
Copyright is totally irrelevant here, it only might help the original author to stand for one's right, but the degree of offense is exactly the same. Saying what you say is nearly the same as saying that killing of an insured person (or a legal citizen, or somebody else — you name it) is a crime, but killing others is just immoral behavior. 
—SASergey A Kryukov
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(Un)fortunately his account was already disabled so you've missed that I followed his posts around for a bit and chastised him for plagiarism. He actually asked one person why what he was doing was wrong.
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Nice. No one can say what's worse: cynical crime or this kind of "innocence" .
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Yup, that was me. I tried to explain that don't simply copy-paste without even understanding the answer and simply give link to direct the user to appropriate internet link but in vain. Hence I reported with example.
Good to hear that prompt action was taken and account disabled.
Milind
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Agree. Thank you for reporting and thus revealing the fraud. By the way, it's funny that someone recently down-voted my comment above, where I have strongly negative assessment of the plagiarism. I make an impression that some member tries to support plagiarism. (Or maybe just misunderstood me, hopefully.)
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Thanks for letting me know.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Don't know, and can't guess - except in one case:
Retrieving XML file from system[^]
What you have posted as a solution:
Will you please give some more details Sir ?
You see, there is a problem Sir. Unfortunately, we are not mind-readers. We are mere technical personal who give out some of our time to learn and share technical knowledge.
Milind Is clearly not an answer, so I am not surprised at all that it got downvoted by someone. This is at best a comment, and I have deleted your "solution" to put the question back on the "unanswered" list.
[edit]Typo: "gat" for "can't" - OriginalGriff[/edit]
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Yup. Agree. I understand that. It was mere frustation to see nth question yesterday without any details. And I accept that I should have either ignored, reported or added this as comment. Apology for that.
However, the other two are cases of abusing the system of downvoting for no apparent reason for answer which is accepted by OP.
Also, I understand that CP/we can't do much about it except making compulsory to add comment while downvoting an answer accepted as solution by OP. (Not all answer).
But I will leave it to that.
-Milind
Hope that helps. If it does mark it as answer/upvote.
Thanks,
Milind
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And the question was not a question, totally pointless post — I removed it. I'm curious: if I collect 3 links to such posts and down-voted them withing 5 minutes, will anyone accuse me in immoral behavior? Or I would need to do it in an hour per post, to pretend I was thinking really hard?
What's bad is unmotivated down-votes, but frankly, some posts are so idiotic that just explaining why they are bad would be so displeasing… It's like telling the joke and then explaining it to those who did not get it.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I know what you mean, but sometimes it's worth explaining why the post is so useless in the hope that they will do better next time.
Forlorn hope mostly, but you gotta have Hope! 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Of course, in absolute majority of cases, having a minimally sane member to talk to (well, only today I met a couple of amazingly insane ones, still tried to explain things, almost patiently, probably in vain), it's important, and is a must.
Thank you,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Swimming lessons might be good. I know lots of devs who feel like they are drowning in their efforts.
I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.
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