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This[^] and This[^] have these messages[^] and these messages[^].
They (he?) are dumping code one the Q&A section with no question nor explanation under different posts with a lot of different tags. Plus they both subscribed extremely recently (yesterday and this morning).
Sometimes they edit the question made to bump it up (witnessed yesterday evening). I don't know what game they're playing nor what are they trying to accomplish, but I'd say they are definetely abusive - they don't even answer to direct questions meant to actually answer to them.
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It is custom in QA to post code-dump as question - we try to teach them how to improve that via comments/answers...
I would not report them more than signing the questions as 'unclear or incomplete'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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6 times the same day a few hours after registration under 6 different posts with different tags? And the most recent one even replied to himself with other snippets of code... Something smell really, really bad!
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I have left comments on two of the 'questions' but did not get an answer so far. We just had the discussion to be carefully with reporting as 'Not a question' and I'm using these reports in very rare cases. But this is such a case for me.
Because there are only a few 'questions' left now, it seems that others think similar.
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It's not abuse, it's additional information and he has no idea what to do, so he's adding stuff as second questions and answers because he doesn't realise that we won't tie it all together for him. I've sent him a couple of notes and hopefully he will sort it out into a single answerable question.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I went to all 6 "questions" of the 2nd user you reported and explained him what he was doing wrong. I didn't get any feedback
So far both users have only a single question active (I posted the same explanation in the remaining question of the first user as well), I guess the rest were nuked with the "no question" report.
As others said, the thema was raised a couple of times in B&S forum. The conclusion was to try to be a bit more patient and guide such newbies on how to ask correctly.
My personal opinion to that is... you are right, they are getting very, very close to the limits. I hope once they get the mail notification with the same explanation 6 times, they would learn from it. If not... it is their call, they will have to live with the results (1st of all, not getting the help they ask for)
M.D.V. 
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user[^] posting messages[^] and QA Items[^] in old questions to promote own blog.
Big kahoona solved it
M.D.V.
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modified 17-Nov-14 18:56pm.
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Gone
cheers
Chris Maunder
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At least[^] he put it in the forum that would mostly be interested by it.
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Yeah all of that you described sounds like more work than I put in, plus involves having more than one tab open. I'll just report it here if I see it, like I did.
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Then the reported message may be removed while the account stays active because the link to it is no longer available.
Similar when there are multiple messages and the account has been remvoed.
Finally, providing the links is more convenient for others.
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I does make it a lot easier for everyone else if you link to the messages page: once a user is gone, there is no way to destroy the other messages without involving Hamsters.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: there is no way to destroy the other messages without involving Hamsters.
That is not 100% correct.
For comments, messages and QA items, one can build the query manually
Comments:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/MemberComments.aspx?mid=XXXXXXXX
QA Items:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Answers/MemberPosts.aspx?tab=answers&mid=XXXXXXXX
Forum Messages:
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Messages.aspx?fmid=XXXXXXXX
Where XXXXXXXX is the member ID not the friendly name. In this case (only pasting the one message link) then your statement is totally true, but on reports where the member can be seen in the link to the account, then those query can be built manually.
Other thing is with the Articles, Tip/Tricks and Blogs, they are a bit buggy because the querys are built with the friendly name. Once the account is dead, clicking the link brings you to your own list of contributions.
I already raised that point a while ago in the B&S Forum.
But... there is still a workaround. You can use the CP-Intern search function with "author: YYYYYYYY" where YYYYYYYY is the user name of the nuked account.
But... in conclusion...
OriginalGriff wrote: I does make it a lot easier for everyone else
this is 1000% correct, it makes it definitively easier
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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P0mpey3 wrote: plus involves having more than one tab open.
Ya, I'm with you. Tabs are so 2001. 
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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Gone 
~R@JEES#
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It's gone!
~R@JEES#
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~R@JEES#
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gone
BTW... next time please do post the link of the messages list. Now that the user is gone, it can be a bit difficult to clean up
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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