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Why do you claim to be from the U.S.?
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Probably because it's the default location setting when you sign up to CP.
Unless you change it to your actual country, US is what it stays.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'd recommend you learn English first; most documentation is in English, most open source projects use English, the articles on this site are in English.
You need not master the entire language, but it would help a lot if you could gain access to those resources.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have been trying to answers "Email Validation" and "Domain Validation" kind of questions with a perspective of Internationalized Domain Names with relevant answers. I wonder why all the answers which I post, despite following community guidelines get flagged as spam??
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This is the wrong place to ask this, but I'll answer it anyway.
Your posts were legit - or at least mostly legit - but when you get a new member posting the same links to multiple questions and those are nearly all over ten years old it looks very dodgy.
I moderated the posts when the automated system brought them to my attention, and decided that on balance they were not sufficiently legit to let through, and on balance were probably the start of what we call "rep point hunting": posting to old questions for rep points in the hope they wouldn't get seen - a form of site abuse.
But ... I wasn't sure that you were abusing the system, so I added you to my "watch list" to see what you did instead of throwing you off the site immediately.
Unfortunately there was no way to contact you without letting your posts through, so when this message came up I let it through and wrote this reply.
While I applaud your urge to help people, it's a good idea to stick to new questions, rather than 10+ year old ones - and avoid "link heavy" replies, particularly to questions with good replies already. After that amount of time, it's unlikely that the original poster is at all interested in the problem any more!
Answering old questions can be seen as rep-point hunting, which is a form of site abuse. The more trigger happy amongst us will start the process of banning you from the site if you aren't careful. Stick to new questions, post less link heavy solutions, and you'll be fine.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Thank you for the reply OriginalGriff. I have already been through one account banning. Thank you for not banning this account of mine outrightly. My endeavor behind answering 10 year old questions is for the new developers who might have similar questions, from taking that old approach which is not correct. I sincerely do not care about bounty points. What I do care about is the overall user awareness. These kind of Old and highly visible questions, when one searches with relevant tags, keep on coming at the top of the search and end up misguiding the naïve implementers.
Your suggestion to "Ask a new question" though valid, can cause a new issue, as I imagine. I would be again flagged as spammer for "Asking the same question". Won't I?
It is indeed unfortunate that we cannot connect directly through profile in DMs. I would have loved to do that to thrash out this detail.
I am not trying deliberately to be "link-heavy". But to avoid that, answers would needlessly get heavy.
Please guide.
modified 18-Aug-22 2:15am.
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I didn't suggest that you "ask a new question" - I suggested that you stick to "answering new questions": Quote: While I applaud your urge to help people, it's a good idea to stick to new questions, rather than 10+ year old ones
My apologies if that wasn't clear.
Certainly if you post a question just so you can answer it you will get kicked off very quickly!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have been caught once or twice by the 'ten year old question' trap. If you see a new question (on the home page) that you think you might be able to answer, and go to it but someone else has already given a good answer (or, more commonly in my case, you realise that you cannot answer the question), your eyes gravitate to the 'similar questions' list on the right-hand side. If you follow ones from there, you can sometimes find ones that you might be able to answer; so you compose an answer. If you are lucky, you spot that it is a 'ten year old question' before posting; if less lucky, you only spot it after posting.
Perhaps we should / could raise a 'bugs and suggs' to have the age of the question more prominently displayed.
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It's been raised in B&S before. The conclusion is that adding new answers to old questions is perfectly fine, so long as you're adding something new to the discussion.
The problem here is that this is a new member, posting answers which have multiple links to a relatively-unknown site that looks like a blog. As Griff said, this is typical behaviour for a site-driving spammer or rep-point hunter, which is why the solutions are being deleted as "spam".
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- Homer
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I was updating domain and e-mail validation questions with new approaches that need to be taken due to advent of the Internationalized Domain Names. With answers specific to the programming language mentioned in the question and the specific APIs they can use for the IDN compliant implementation. If that is not "adding something new to the discussion", what is?
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You've been here 4 months, and you were resurrecting multiple old questions with multiple links to a blog. If that's not indicative of a site-driving spammer or a rep-point hunter, then what is?
You probably were adding something new to the discussion. But the way you went about it meant that you looked like a spammer / rep-point hunter, which is why your solutions were removed.
"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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Bear in mind that this is nothing personal: it's about what your actions look like to others.
If you walk around your town wearing a hockey mask and carrying a big axe, nobody is going to assume "he was playing ice hockey when his mother range and told him she was out of kindling, I expect". Nope, they are going to assume "Eeek! A crazy axe murderer! Run!" aren't they? And the chances are the police will shoot you rather than try to arrest you ... 
We don't get told your motivations: we just see your actions, and make an assessment based on that. And as someone who has "already been through one account banning" you should be aware of that. What did we kick you off for last time? Lets see ... 22 March we kicked you for site driving ... which is what your posts this time looked like ...
See what we mean now?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Once again, thanks for the detailed response OriginalGriff. I do understand what you are trying to convey. From where we come from, police do not directly shoot. They take him into custody, enquire and if it comes out that there is a new hockey stadium has opened nearby and he is going towards that, they let him go. Afterall, prospects of "site-driving" are not so serious a crime, especially when as Mods you have full authority to remove all the activity one does with account suspension.
I was only requesting to be assessed based on the nature of content of my response.
Coming to giving external links, I would really require your guidance about how to point users to additional sources of information, especially when the whole intention of your activity is to right a wrong that happens when people seek info from QnA forums for implementing stuff like validating domain names and e-mail addresses. I am happy to write an article on CodeProject if linking that article in response does not amount to proverbial axe wielding. Would that be a right thing to do?
Thanks for your thoughtful and thorough indulgence.
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I linked a lot to MSDN and other CP articles, and has never been a problem. Not even a problem to post links to SO.
Akshat J wrote: Once again, thanks for the detailed response OriginalGriff. I do understand what you are trying to convey.
It's not that complicated if you read the thread. It's old questions and the one who posted it gets a mail from something they asked 10 years ago. Questions aren't maintained or updated to reflect current practices, otherwise all VB6 related comment would have been removed.
Akshat J wrote: and if it comes out that there is a new hockey stadium has opened nearby and he is going towards that, they let him go.
If you walk around with a stick outside the stadium it can be confiscated. Same applies to any nonsense about baseball stadiums and even kitchen-knives. If you buy them, knives are packaged. If you walk around with a knife without packaging, it will be confiscated. Depending on how others interpret your actions, e.g., if you acted threatening, then you better call a lawyer. My walking cane isn't a weapon, but if I'm on a surveillance cam raising it, it is judged a weapon, and at that moment the walking cane is not used for its intended purpose.
Akshat J wrote: Afterall, prospects of "site-driving" are not so serious a crime, especially when as Mods you have full authority to remove all the activity one does with account suspension.
Cycling through a red light when there's no car to be seen isn't a serious crime maybe, but I'd still risk a fine. Rightly so. Also, it's not just moderators; if ten normal users like me report you for spam or abuse, then the account is suspended.
Akshat J wrote: I am happy to write an article on CodeProject if linking that article in response does not amount to proverbial axe wielding. Would that be a right thing to do?
Testing the water to see how far we can go, are we? 
That's what you're doing now it seems - asking what exactly is allowed and what isn't. Linking is simply allowed. Linking only to your site means that your intention is not helping but abusing us for advertising your site. Breaking the rules of the site might not be a crime, but it does mean you are taking advantage of a lot of volunteers. And you are surprised that people who gather here do not like that and want to stop it? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I guess I will not push this beyond a point. The links I was trying to put were not always to a personal blog. They were also to a community page which is constituted by an international collaborative effort to boost the overall perception about Internationalized Domain Names. Even when they were linked to the personal blog, it was only because there was no MSDN Page or a CP article which gave that kind of information.
I often said that looking into the contents of the answers, the content in the link, and the nature of portal to which it was being linked, would have helped before making judgement about it being a spam. The way it is going, it is appearing that I am being pushy or trying to take it to maximum limits till I can. I sincerely do not wish to do so.
I will not put any such links. It certainly limits my effort but I guess that is how it has to be.
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Akshat J wrote: They were also to a community page which is constituted by an international collaborative effort to boost the overall perception about Internationalized Domain Names
A what? You mean something like MSDN or this site? Then there would not be a discussion.
Akshat J wrote: Even when they were linked to the personal blog, it was only because there was no MSDN Page or a CP article which gave that kind of information.
Oh? Please, do give a relevant example?
Akshat J wrote: I often said that looking into the contents of the answers, the content in the link, and the nature of portal to which it was being linked, would have helped before making judgement about it being a spam.
Nope, it does not. You cannot expect CP to go out and judge some personal blog. Even then, none complain if I link to Joel On Software. Why not? Because it is less than 1% of my answers.
Akshat J wrote: The way it is going, it is appearing that I am being pushy or trying to take it to maximum limits till I can. I sincerely do not wish to do so.
Oh, you are dear, even asking how for you can go. These "mods" as you call them put a lot of hours in answering questions. You did not.
Akshat J wrote: It certainly limits my effort but I guess that is how it has to be.
Your choice. You behave nice, or you get kicked. The moderators are expected to be patient. I'm not.
It does not limit you if you want to help. It limits you only how often you link to the same fringe-resource.
Akshat J wrote: They were also to a community page
Humor me, link to it now.
I'll explain later.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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And because you included those links this message was flagged as spam and sent to moderation. On this occasion I accepted it.
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Thanks for the links.
Fair use should already tell you that you're on the wrong path. You calling sitedriving a lesser crime is the proof, innit 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Akshat J wrote: I guess that is how it has to be.
This is how it is.
You can either adhere to the rules of the group, or you elephant off. The current count for abuse is 2; if you go above 10, you suspended by ordinary members. And I can call in favors to achieve just that
So, one last time and I'll make it simple. Can you play nice, or no?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You can either adhere to the rules of the group, or you elephant off.
Of course I know where I stand as a mere user on the forum. I assumed certain rules and got rebuked, hence asked in detail. Asking got termed as pushing the limits.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: And I can call in favors to achieve just that 
As a power user (hope this term does not get double quoted and taken in a wrong way) you can do what you feel like Eddy.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: So, one last time and I'll make it simple. Can you play nice, or no?
Thank you for making it simple. Playing nice was the intention from the very beginning, still is. I hope asking questions is not considered as "not playing nice.".
Good day.
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Akshat J wrote: I assumed certain rules and got rebuked, hence asked in detail
This is basic psychology and goes for every group; you do not assume, you adapt and play by the rules. If you don't, any group will lash out.
Akshat J wrote: Asking got termed as pushing the limits
O, no; that is completely on my personal account as a fellow member; do not pretend that the site punished you in any form.
Akshat J wrote: As a power user (hope this term does not get double quoted and taken in a wrong way) you can do what you feel like Eddy.
I am not a power-user, just a normal member. Power users have extra rights and responsibilities. Me being a normal member means I do not represent the site nor their opinion.
Akshat J wrote: Playing nice was the intention from the very beginning, still is.
Good. Do an article without links and surprise me.
Akshat J wrote: I hope asking questions is not considered as "not playing nice."
Being mean to a new member is also not nice, and I might get a warning or some downvotes. Asking questions is encouraged, as for every question you post, five more members read it with the same problem.
Surprise me.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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hi all,
can anybody help me to draw a thick border around round png.
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(@"C:\Users\Ali\Desktop\1.png");
int w = bmp.Width;
int h = bmp.Height;
Lst_Data lastpointcolor = new Lst_Data() ;
for (int y = 0; y < h; y++)
{
for (int x = 0; x < w; x++)
{
Color c = bmp.GetPixel(x, y);
if (c.A != Color.Transparent.A)
{
if (lastpointcolor.color.A == Color.Transparent.A)
{
bmp.SetPixel(lastpointcolor.point.X, lastpointcolor.point.Y, Color.Red);
}
}
lastpointcolor = new Lst_Data() { point = new Point(x, y), color = bmp.GetPixel(x, y) };
}
}
for (int y = h-1; y > 0; y--)
{
for (int x = w-1; x > 0; x--)
{
Color c = bmp.GetPixel(x, y);
if (c.A != Color.Transparent.A)
{
if (lastpointcolor.color.A == Color.Transparent.A)
{
bmp.SetPixel(lastpointcolor.point.X, lastpointcolor.point.Y, Color.Red);
}
}
lastpointcolor = new Lst_Data() { point = new Point(x, y), color = bmp.GetPixel(x, y) };
}
}
pictureBox1.Image = bmp;
}
public struct Lst_Data
{
public Point point;
public Color color;
}
thanks in advance.
modified 16-Aug-22 4:29am.
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What technology are you using? WinForms? WPF? Other?
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