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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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To be honest I don't like the blog feeds because I can't start with them... most of them have links to other parts of their blogs. I find it a big grey zone that need clarification
In an Q&A Item a guy posting links to his own blog would be reported for site driving.
In an article the same.
But in the blogs is quite usual to see links in "reported speech" style... If you have a look to my other article XXXXX I said there // You can get the introduction for this topic in XXXXX
And so on...
But this one[^] writing links to own twater, farcebook and forwarding the code download to his blog is a bit too much in my opinion.
So I would like to ask... how "tolerant" do we have to be with blogs and why do blogs deserve that tolerance if you compare them with the other items published here?
@Chris-Maunder and @Sean-Ewington is there an official answer by CP? What are your personal opinions?
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If the intent of a post is to advertise or market a product, and that post isn't posted in the showcase or other sponsored section, then it's spam.
CodeProject is for developers to share their code freely. It's not to be used as a marketing tool for other sites or products.
If the post provides good content then it should stay. If it's spammy it should go. If it's in between then we ask the member to either remove the blatant marketing stuff from the post or the post gets removed.
We'll have a chat with the author.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My 5 cents already in (all abuse)
I did a really cool discovery (I suppose I am quite late on this but...)
In the list of the comments... you can report them within the list, you don't need to go to visit the parent items.
That is a helpful feature to save time.
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I'd never noticed that...
Cheers!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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#7 and more
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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Posting links to a shopping website 12872791[^]
modified 2-Dec-16 13:08pm.
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Member gone - so no link to answer available.
Have you got one in your history?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 27-Nov-16 3:55am.
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Weird: I got the "member closed" page ... but I don't now.
Methinks the hamsters have been at the fermented sunflower seeds again.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There's no link, no site - just the text.
I remember it, it came up in moderation so I let it through as I assumed it was a question not an answer.
I suspect it's meant as a question - but a very poor one - rather than anything spammy. Perhaps a "warn and watch" would be a better idea here?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds fine to me. It just looked like a test message in preparation for a spam attack.
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And done.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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gone (for the 2nd time)
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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What is it that attracts them to that article? Spammers are just weird.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Final kick applied to the messages.
"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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Spammer driven from the site.
"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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