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Take a look at Solution #8 to the old question How to save and retrieve Bold and Italic words in sqlserver[^] by user Member 10843633[^].
What's that? Did that guy test if he could inject URLs into links which still look like internal links?
Well, he could add links to his site anyway... Did he try to find out how to hide an external link?
Or is that just an accident?
I do not know. What do you think?
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I think it's just a mistake: the link goes to the question, and the text is easy to accidentally delete.
I'd leave off from any action just yet, and keep an eye on what he does next.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Presumably that's any action other than reporting it as "not an answer"? 
The fact that one person has given the "answer" a vote of 5 looks slightly odd.
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: The fact that one person has given the "answer" a vote of 5 looks slightly odd.
Perhaps the 5 voter likes short and sweet? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't think it's abuse. I often see people post questions in the solution field or even the OP posting additional information in the Solution field. Perhaps solution is not clear enough of an English word for some people.
Just mark it as not an answer and move on.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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gone
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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I only read through the BO in ASP.Net one but again, I don't see a problem with it. The solution points to 2 codeproject articles and then a google link.
The question was very vague so vague answers are sometimes the best that can be given.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Pure spam
Thanks
Do not forget to comment and rate the article if it helped you by any means.
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gone
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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I think he just found something "usefull" and he searched for diferent related questions. 3 or 4 of the answers were about TeamViewer and other two were similar to each other as well.
Don't think I am defending him, many answers did not apport anything new or even usefull, and some were just not solutions at all, barely comments.
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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Agree with you. There is nothing wrong with answering old questions. Accusation in "point harvesting" can lead us way too far. The arguments for reporting on a member account should be based on something bad in the posts themselves; it does not matter why they were posted, the motivation should not be a matter of discussion. As as some question remains accessible to some member and makes sense, answering it should be considered legitimate. Truth does not rust with time.
And if someone thinks that answering some questions is inappropriate (which can be the case, in particular, when a question is off-topic), that member should take measures to remove the question. If a question is legitimate and makes sense, answering it should be considered legitimate.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I guess that the point that raised the report was that some of those answers, were not solutions at all.
I personally reported at least 8 solutions as "not an answer", "offtopic" or "unclear / incomplete", but other answers were legitime and didn't take any action.
The suspicious fact was a block of 15+ answers within 1 hour for old questions (some were 2010 and even 2009), with doubtfull quality.
And this guy might have a group of legitime answers, many others just post some crap probably because they don't know that a new answer brings that thread to the light at the top of the list. In that cases, I agree with reporting it.
As always... it is up to us and our common sense
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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Oh, don't get me wrong. I think a good number of members should be knocked out of here for their "answers". I just say the reasons for that should be different. The problem is just the opposite: sometimes, community shows the tolerance to extreme abuse, the tolerance I cannot explain.
Just look at my recent report:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4882973/Fake-plagiarized-Q-A-answers-by-verbose-copying-of.aspx[^].
The check up of several posts in a row shows that he posts verbose copies of other answers, not only without crediting them, but without any thinking, by keywords.
I tried to report members posting something I called "fake answers", by one or another reason. The are really shameless people, but some accounts survive even now. I understand that care should be taken to avoid false accusation, but number of cases (including the one referenced above) are way to obvious…
—SASergey A Kryukov
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That's why I like to post "gone" or similars here. So people who check the forum can know, which ones could be still active.
I remember that report. I gave my 5 cent, but if we don't get to the full dolar... then the machine won't react 
I leave towards home. Have a nice day
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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Agree.
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Message is gone - spammer? Abusive?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Both. Political statement and a few dozen links to who knows what.
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We can't ban him for political statements: DD would be gone in moments! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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DD doesn't usually do that in tech forums. Only in The Lounge and/or similars.
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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Nelek wrote: DD doesn't usually do that in tech forums.
Only because he rarely goes to the tech forums.
Wait until his campaign for the Luton Council position gets up and running... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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