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I think in order to delete a question, the "deleter" must have to give a reason for the delete and their name be posted with this reason as well. I have seen some questions with answers that should definitely have been deleted.
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I see that a couple people have recommended you add an XNA forum over the years, but XNA has come a long way since then. I think now would be a good time to add an XNA forum. People could just use the Q&A area to ask XNA questions, but I think adding a forum specifically for XNA would help draw some of the XNA community here by showing that XNA is a first class citizen.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: but I think adding a forum specifically for XNA would help draw some of the XNA community here by showing that XNA is a first class citizen.
XNA is a first class citizen, even when it's third person shooter 
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I agree. I'd love to see an XNA forum.
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For now I'd prefer to be a little more inclusive
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Hey guys,
I remember seeing this project on here a while ago, and it was also on CodePlex as well. It was called something like ViperWorks Ignition or something or other, and I was wondering if anyone had seen it, had downloaded or knows where they can download it from.
Thanks in advance for any help!
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For anybody looking into this, this is the CodePlex link (no longer works) and this is the Code Project link (says the article was deleted June 10th of 2010). If you guys track reasons for deleted articles, perhaps that would help the OP.
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It's unlikely that the OP will get much joy. The author deleted the article because it fell foul of one of the cardinal article rules; no commercial libraries.
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Perhaps the OP could contact the author to ask for a copy (if we can figure out who the author was).
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http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/List.aspx. There is one place on that page that still says "Javascript" rather than "JavaScript":
Page says: Discussions on AJAX, ASP, HTML, Javascript, etc.
P.S. It would be nice to have an "insert quote" button for posts that are not replies (such as this one).
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Picky! 
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Unfastidious!
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OriginalGriff wrote: The answer was deleted when I got there, but it was all visible!
I deleted the answer but after moving the contents from answer to question. I remember that the image was visible in the question at that time too. When I see now, I can just see the link.
I thought it was a feature added/provided to members to post better view of questions if needed. 
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Trouble is, with some of the idiots we get here, how long would it be until this site is counted as NSFW?
I have always assumed that images are only allowed in Articles because they are positively moderated, unlike Q&A and the forums.
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Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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The way I see it images are fine as long as they reside on the CP servers.
That way their links are less likely to break, and the material can be moderated; this could and should work equally well for articles, tips, and questions/answers/forums, but it does not. There is some inconsistency, and probably a bug too.
For non-article images on CP one currently needs the "Upload area" which is available only to some members.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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Not a bug, and we never said you couldn't link to images in QA 
With QA everything is community moderated so we're being far more lenient with things like this. If something is posted that's inappropriate (or just busted, or way, way too big) then it can be edited out or just deleted
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks for the insight Chris. 
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I have the sense that people vote on questions in Q&A based on whether they would ask such a question themselves, not on the validity of the question itself. [To clarify: I am talking about the OP's original question, not on proposed solutions.] To put it another way, I think some people are down-voting questions because they think the OP is an idiot.
While this may or may not be true, I still believe there is no such thing as a dumb question, so I would like to suggest that the OP's question can only be up-voted, not down-voted.
If anyone feels the question is stupid, they can pass it by. We need to be encouraging people to ask questions, not laughing at them.
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There is no such thing as a stupid question, only an incomplete one.
We all had to start somewhere, and sometimes the questions seem very simple and low level, but not to the noob who has never encountered the problem before.
A little patience is all that is required.
Stupid answers, on the other hand... 
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When I find the question does not deserves a vote of 1 from a general prospective, I simply up-vote it and move on. Why to put a constraint or question others on down-vote?
There are instances where few deserve down-voting. I rarely down-vote now but I do when I come across those instances.
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Great suggestion Hans. I totally agree. Questions should only support up-votes. If a senior member thinks it deserves a down-vote, then just delete it (or edit/improve it to make it better). Down voting questions is ridiculous.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: If a senior member thinks it deserves a down-vote, then just delete it
0) You get more points for just reporting it.
1) A down-vote gives the OP a chance to fix it.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: (or edit/improve it to make it better
How are we supposed to guess what the OP wanted to say. The only thing I do when I edit is fix code blocks or the occasional misspelling/syntax problem. Beyond that, editing is kinda iffy.
Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Down voting questions is ridiculous
It's not always ridiculous...
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I agree 100%
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.
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I down-vote(not mostly) questions which are reposts. BTW I add a comment to OP regarding this so he can understand the thing.
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