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I thought that name looked familiar. Yeah, his entire problem is that he needs to go back through the beginners books again and attend classes and a little critical thinking course and ....
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So yes, he can learn new tools. That's a given, but in reading that through I see the following:
"Ever used a debugger" (followed by a comment on how he doesn't know how to use a debugger)
"Yes, use a debugger" plus the actual reason for his issue
- "I figured that out literally seconds before you posted this" from the OP plus a further question followed by some really unnecessary snipiness from 2 others.
This is stupid. Why couldn't someone just say
a) you need to actually use the "return" keyword to return a value
b) after swapping values you need to return the result (mi or last, depending) instead of myString
Really, really simple. He's a newbie front end dev who has worded a question clearly, formatted it nicely, and admits he doesn't know how to phrase things properly (and clearly doesn't understand enough to see what he's doing wrong).
So why dump on him? Just answer and move on, or if it's a poor question vote it down and move on. Let someone who doesn't feel the need to make someone feel stupid have a go at answering the question.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I can see the point. I have to agree.
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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This member[^] is spamming the QA forum in an apparent anti spam protest
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Ironic isn't it?
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His history (8 months) is not looking like a spammer. He has messages 50+ no-spam messages. (You even answered him a copule couple of times)
He has made a mistake, yes. But I think a warning about spam could be enough, I think he appretiates his account and will correct himself.
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 helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This[^] member joined just today and has done nothing but posted (40 at last count) comments telling people to go to another website to get their questions answered, but in his words, it's not spam.
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ThePhantomUpvoter wrote: it's not spam.
Hybrid spammers, deserve to be nuked out!
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I respectfully disagree with the good Trevor30. Of course it is spam.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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This[^] member is pretty much doing nothing but posting links to his own website in order to drive traffic there, 3 out of 4 "answers" and 2 out of 3 comments. I warned him that it was abuse but he came back posting links again.
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I think it's a borderline case. I'd give him enough rope and see what happens.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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He is still posting his spam. I am deleting them as fast as I can.
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OK. When I looked he only had 3 solution posts up and they at least looked like potential answers to the questions being posed. If he's not taking advise to cut it out then 'off with his head' as the Queen of Hearts would say, although I don't see anything spammy at the moment so I think you well on top of it.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: they at least looked like potential answers to the questions being posed
Now spammers are becoming intelligent and intelligent, sometimes in my blog I also get confused that what is spam or not. Anyways, that member is a spammer. He scans for "printing" in and comments similar links. But mostly offtopic, for example, someone wants to print a page, but the link given is of printing barcodes.
This member Should be nuked ASAP.
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Both links nuked
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 helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Some Chinese translation... can be treated as plagiarism.
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There is a link at the bottom of that article that links to the original article here on CP.
Still somebody ought to talk to them about this.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Thanks for the report. We'll take care of it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Irony, n (\ˈī-rə-nē)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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