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I don't really know how the links between Technical Blogs and CodeProject work and whether blog entries are automatically submitted to CP once they are posted on the personal blog or if it requires a manual action by the member. For that reason, I am asking this question in this forum as opposed to throwing a prolific member to the wolves.
This Blog submission just showed up in the moderation queue: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/ArticleVersion.aspx?waid=99192&aid=674580[^]
It appears to be copied directly from this: http://bigdatastudio.com/2013/09/29/top-big-data-skills-in-demand[^]
For now I have just flagged it as Plagiarized, but I don't know if more should be done.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I directed an Email to Sean to ask him how a case like that needs to be handled.
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Thanks Marco. I would prefer not to post it in the Spam and Abuse forum. Most of the time that gets the member account closed and I don't think that is appropriate given his other contributions.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I appreciate your apprehensiveness, and thank you Marco for reaching out.
I spent a long time going over the member's blog entries, answers, and articles this morning. I believe I've removed every instance of plagiarism in the blog entries and articles. Then I started finding plagiarism in the answers too.
I'm sure this member has helped many members over the years, but the sheer amount of plagiarism I found makes me question how much of his contributions are his own, if any. Rampant plagiarism isn't just something we can let run amok on the site, so I've de-activated the member's account.
Thank you again for the report.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Well, there you go. I didn't expect it to turn out like that. Thanks for doing the hard work of digging into his contributions. I didn't even think about doing that, I just figured he had been a helpful member through the years.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Not sure how to mark this one
MVC4 Samples [^]
They are the sample of course material from an external site
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I was wondering about the articles[^] from this member[^].
They use a library that is available under a Commercial license, but also under GNU GPL.
Do we allow this because the library is available under GNU GPL?
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We had an opportunity to host the ASP.NET Wiki articles from Microsoft's ASP.NET site on CodeProject and I figured what better place to allow these articles to get a bit of loving.
The articles are at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/wiki-aspnet/[^] but they have not, for the most part, been carefully reformatted nor have we gone through and nuked articles that are clearly not providing any value to the community.
Please use your judgement on what to do with these articles. Ultimately I'd prefer to see them updated and cleaned up, but if it's better to combine or simply remove some of the articles that are too spindly to survive, then that's your call.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris has recently added 521 articles from Wiki.ASP.NET and all Bronze member have rights to edit these articles.
I found this article .NET Framework 3.5 Namespaces[^] which is only a link. It links to a MSDN blog which itself contains only links to various formats of a poster "Commonly Used Types and Namespaces".
What should be done with this?
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Edit or vote it off the island.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Never mind , I had an option to update the article and I did improved the content.
Thanks,
Ranjan.D
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I invented a system and the software and source code are here on CP. I first invented it around 1999 when I was teaching myself Windows C programming. I posted it here in 2000.
In the comments section of my article a user sent me a message about how he was granted a patent, seemingly on my invention. He listed its number and I downloaded it. http://www.rock-technologies.com/Downloads/Patent/P6090/US020060168106A1_all_pages.pdf[^]When I read it I thought I was reading my own thoughts.
He has done one thing since his 7 years of membership and that was to send me an email today with his patented information. Do you think he has been planning this? Am I overreacting? Thoughts and advice please!?!
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If this is the case then I'm fairly sure you can challenge a patent by posting a link to your article as prior art.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you for the solid advice!
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I went through this with some public domain source of my own (Microsoft is the patent holder...). My work is listed as prior art in the patent text. I talked with a patent attorney at my company, and he told me that if I submitted the work in public domain, then anybody was free to copy/use it. In fact he interrupted me and gave me the answer before I finished my first sentence. This is apparently a common "rubber stamp" question in the patent world.
The main thing to consider is that when you make something public domain, you make it available for anybody in the world to use for any reason whatsoever (including making money from your work).
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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I voted "Unclear or Incomplete", because in this message[^], I've read what a competition article must include:
- The platform and category you're targeting (Entertainment or Games for All-In-One and Education, Healthcare, Finance or Retail for Tablets)
- Overview of the application and what it does (a one sentence pitch/tagline will do!)
- Description of the intended uses for the application presented in writing and/or visually (this is where you can get into more detail)
- The approach taken to develop the application (tell us a little bit about how you'll turn your idea into a working demo app if you're chosen as a finalist to move onto Round 2 and receive a Windows 8 touch-enabled device from Lenovo)
- The coding languages to be used (pretty straight forward, tell us what languages and development tools you'll be using)
- Updated CodeProject bio with some information about your software development history
The article is missing most of this information, so I voted "Unclear or Incomplete"
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I've received a reply to one of my posts in the C++/MFC message boards at the beginning of July. I've indeed given a wrong answer and the reply to it was the following: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4606116/Re-my-exe-appears-in-task-manager-after-closing.aspx[^]
Since then I've received other posts with the same morale-destroying offensive style. Many of his posts around that message board have an insulting side by degrading others and I simply can't imagine a context in which marking somebody as idiot or anything similar would be appropriate on codeproject. It would be nice to be able to block him so as to prevent receiving notifications about his posts. I've never came across any other members I wanted to ignore but this time I became interested even about the "Report member" button but I didn't want to pull the trigger as I don't know how what that feature does.
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Report member for abuse is definitely the way to go. Thank you for reporting this. This isn't his first report, and it won't be his last. I'll be keeping a close eye on him.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you, I tried out the report member feature! Can you tell me how does this member reporting feature work? Will he be warned in some way before closing his account? Just closing an account is sometimes not effective as creation of a new one is easy...
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I believe there is no warning. Just a message indicating why your account was de-activated when it happens. My impression is that people get attached to their profiles. It's pretty effective.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean - Erudite_Eric has had many, many accounts. They often get closed and he seems to take a perverse joy in it. He used to be known as fat_boy.
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pasztorpisti wrote: I don't know how what that feature does.
Using this feature, you can flag members. If 5 members would flag a spammer, then the account of the spammer gets closed.
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