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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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Thank you for the info. He has received his 3rd report.
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i write a tip in this link:
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all was ok until this tip marked as closed.
why? please at least give me reason.
also my content is good and better from many many other articles or tips which published.
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Wow. Just wow. That is quite an attitude.
First: calm down. Almost everybody here is a volunteer, there are about 10-20 staff, the rest of the 10,000,000 members aren't. Pretty much everyone you are dealing with (me included) is doing this for free. Getting annoyed at like this is just going to make people not like you, and make them less likely to help. Going on about how good your article is, won't help your case either, the people who review articles tend to be pretty experienced. If you can find bad articles, then the probability is that they shouldn't have been published and have slipped through the net.
Secondly: your tip is published. People have voted on it, and it is doing well so far. So I don't see the need for this post at all.
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i post this before publishing my article. but now everything is ok.
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How can we mark a method as deprecated in c#?[^]
This is in the c# article competition right now, and not doing badly given what it is about. Not that there is anything wrong with it per se but should a short blog entry, which can be summed up as "Want to deprecate a method in c#? Decorate it with an [obsolete] attribute and you'll get a warning" even be in the competition? The competitions really are just becoming a depressing popularity contest.
modified 12-Aug-13 9:49am.
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i am very angry from codeproject editors. i am start writing a popular article (just 5 million fan in IRAN) and when it complete i click on publish button. but after many hours some editors say that its not clear and they mark it closed. 
Also i must add that i use pictures and good explanation for beginners on that article.
it's very bad for your editors that can't even read an article completely.
url: Making Site Address Finder in C#[^]
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I've just taken a look at your article. 5,000,000 fans or not, when I visit the link, every image on your article is missing. This might be because of the status of the article.
The other thing I'd say immediately is that it's simply too short to be an article. Articles are meant to be in-depth or cover complex topics, this is neither. I'd say this should be in the tips'n'tricks section.
Finally, I'm not even convinced that the method you propose even has much use, from the code, it seems to download a text file, read it and pumps the values into a text box. Each time you do this, it also introduces an overhead as the file is downloaded and read.
For a user friendly approach, I'd expect the site to simply re-direct to the new URL if the old one is accessed (permanent re-directs where needed). From and SEO point of view this makes double-sense as it tells the search engine's not to present the old URL on future searches, and display the new one in its place.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I've just taken a look at your article. 5,000,000 fans or not
i know just statistics of Iran and each music or film center admin need this kinds of program and they spend near 15$ for like this. 
Keith Barrow wrote: every image on your article is missing. This might be because of the status of the article.
True guess! i can see pictures in edit mode but i can't see them in published mode like you and other members.
Quote: that it's simply too short to be an article.
I think it's better to change it to Tip/Trick as you say but also it can be article. (i saw very short articles in codeproject too much  )
Quote: Finally, I'm not even convinced that the method you propose even has much use, from the code
your answer is here:
Quote: must noticed that i talking about easiest way of making Address Finder and in other methods you can do something else
This is beginner article and i choose a short and easy way to do that!
also i must say in iran when a site (ex www.google.com) became filter, the admin make new url like this (www.google27.com). and can't do any redirect becuse by filtering first URL became unavailable anymore.
Finally thank you because of your response
Best Regards
-Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi
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Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi wrote: i saw very short articles in codeproject too much
I agree, and they really shouldn't have been approved. Part of the problem is we have authors who don't distinguish between the two who approve. If you have a look a few threads down, Pete o'Hanlon has reported such an article.
modified 12-Aug-13 7:24am.
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Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi wrote: What is address finder? Address finder is a kind of program that helps the user to find new available URL of a website. It can be useful when we want to change our current web URL or it expired and we want to show our new available web address to users. Other good usages of address finder is in some countries which websites become filter in that places and admins want to show users their new address.
sorry, but i don't get an idea...
1) Why to use "address finder" (more informative: "url address finder")? Does Google (or similar service) isn't enough?
2) How "address finder" application is published/distributed to the end-user?
Is this a way to hide uncensored content from government or something like that?
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Surely this[^] is a tip. There's not a lot to the article.
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I've just reported the article as being the wrong type.
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