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I suggest you edit your original message here and ask the site administrators to delete the account you no longer need.
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Currently I feel there's no actual sanction for plagiarism. If the author is after rep points, think about following rep point cumulation
- +100: publish plagiarized content
- +500: 50 upvotes from standard user
- +100: some download included
- plagiarism spotted at this point
Ok, in the example, article has passed moderation queue but that happens every now and then. So now you gained 700 points for publishing plagiarized text. Even when you got spotted, you can currently keep the points.
If you compare this to speeding on the highway: You get caught, you get a fine. You may even lose your vehicle.
So what I'm suggesting is a penalty when you get caught from plagiarism. To keep it simple, no need to calculate the actual points gained. The penalty may well be static, say 2000 points.
So in the example above if the penalty would have been implemented, the author would have lost 1300 points. If the plagiarism would have been spotted in moderation queue, author would have lost all 2000 points.
I think that this kind of 'fine' would reduce the amount of plagiarism attempts significantly. I take it that in many cases the motivation is the rep points...
modified 26-Sep-14 9:49am.
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What if the author simply wasn't aware of how to reference material correctly.
I know this sounds odd, but many, many people simply don't know how to do it properly.
So: we can certainly add a "-X points" penalty. We'd have to be able to remove it too for certain circumstances.
What we tend to do is warn the member, they fix it up, all's good. They don't fix up their habits, they disappear. Those who keep coming back will not be dissuaded by rep point penalties.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: What if the author simply wasn't aware of how to reference material correctly.
Yes, I thought about this when writing the suggestion. And as you see, I didn't have any good idea since I didn't include it in the post. Giving back the points could be one solution but probably that would have to be an admin/protector privilege so not a very feasible solution.
I've wrote hundreds or thousands of pages ICT related, copyrighted material over the years so I take plagiarism very personally, regardless of the author. Guess I just needed to vent 
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IMO this[^] is appropriate... 
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A couple hours ago I received na email from "CodeProject [mailout@maillist.codeproject.com]" asking to help on a survey with a link that goes to na inexistente survey.
Is this a prank? A phishing email? Or what?
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
"Politicians and diapers should be changed often and for the same reason." Eça de Queiroz (1845 - 1900)
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Not a phishing expedition. We sent out the wrong link and are busy slapping ourselves.
Sorry about that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: and are busy slapping ourselves.
Please post pics when done. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Don't slap too hard! It could be harmful to your mental capabilities and you're still needed here.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
"Politicians and diapers should be changed often and for the same reason." Eça de Queiroz (1845 - 1900)
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All the hyperlinks are bigger and when I mouse hover on them a popup show with tlbsearch.com redirecting...
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It's just you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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We're working on it. We fixed something else and this broke. Wandering the twisty passages all the same looking for the bug.
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Should be all fixed now.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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All fixed.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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All working now. Thank you. 
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Hi All,
Today i was trying to change my code project styles. And i could change some part but i got stuck in some parts. I tried a lot and i used the following css .
.sidebar {
border-radius: 30px;
}
td.member-rep-list{
border: 2px solid #ccc !important;
border-radius: 50px !important;
height: 100px !important;
padding: 10px !important;
width: 50px !important;
}
.member-rep-list .member-rep-box{
border: 2px solid #ccc !important;
border-radius: 50px !important;
height: 100px !important;
padding: 10px !important;
width: 50px !important;
}
My side bar style is working fine but the other style is not adopting. Now i noticed that the td classes are different as follows
member-rep-box bronze
member-rep-box nostatus
member-rep-box silver
member-rep-box none
It may vary for you.
NB: I am saying about the td part where our points are showing under "Summary".
Please help me.
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Applying CSS to your profile page is unsupported and is left as an exercise for the reader.
We give you enough rope to hang yourself. Be careful!
(Oh, and you never actually said what you were trying to do)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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ok thanks a lot for your reply. then i will do it by myself. cheers
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I've gotten several email notifications of refunds of videos I purchased through Code Project TV. Not sure why. I purchased them, watched them, no refund was necessary.
Apologies if this has been announced somewhere on the site. A cursory search didn't turn up anything, but it could have been right under my nose and I didn't see it.
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There is an option "Make Message Sticky"; it appears on the attempt to add a message in a personal blog. What's its purpose? What it does?
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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