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Here is what happened. Some members reported some broken links in few of my recent answers. I checked it up and found that there are a lot more.
Fortunately, they are easy to fix: past answers with the URL of the form "http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/... .../*.aspx#answer*", can be fixed by just removing "*.aspx" part.
I have a big collections of links used to answer questions, mostly the CodeProject links, and most of them are the links to my own past answers. ("Permalinks", by the way.) I recently reviewed it and found that about a half of my and some other links were broken in the way described above. I fixed and re-checked up all of them, but the harder problem remains: there are many answers (including those good for referencing or actually presently referenced in other posts) which still have those broken links. Even though I could fix them all, there is no a certain criteria for finding them. Besides, some other members reference each other posts, mine or not.
I missed the moment when the URL structure and existing "permalinks" were modified, and neglected those broken links since them, and by now such problems have been accumulated.
Can anything be done?
Thank you,
—SASergey A Kryukov
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This should be an easy fix.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Excuse me, what do you mean? Easy for who? — Thank you, Chris.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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I can fix
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Great. Sorry, I looked at your message absentmindedly. 
I guess… do you mean that you are going to make accept both formats of URL to present the same page, old one (with .aspx) and the new one? It that the idea?
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Yes - and it's just been deployed.
My apologies for the original oversight.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Great. Thank you very much; this is exactly what I hoped for.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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By the way, here is my special invitation for you to see my new 1 of April publication and have some fun:
Some Programming Approaches to "Neuro-Linguistic Programming".
Participation in this game in Comments and Discussions is especially encouraged.
This time, I put more effort in the work. The fun and mocking is supposed to be combined with quite serious hints, in the satirical form, on how we can conduct our discussions, give and use advice, add references and use them, use critical thinking, learn and use our own brains.
I hope many members will enjoy it.
Thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
modified 30-Mar-15 19:57pm.
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By the way, it's already 3rd year when I try to create (or provoke creation) of 1st of April tradition on this site by some publications.
Not only some worlds-class universities and some cities have a large-scale traditional celebrations related to this day, remember IETF humorous RFCs published nearly every year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments...
Maybe we somehow stimulate it? Competition, for example..? 
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Message Removed
modified 27-Mar-15 16:29pm.
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Message Removed
modified 27-Mar-15 16:29pm.
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Thanks for the link, still not sure why my account was closed though  hopefully it will be reinstated.
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Because you posted link to some commercial product which was caught by spam filters. I saw it and your account got closed right away.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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If it was a commercial product I can only imagine it was within the remit of answering a question as commercial products are often the best solution.
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That seems a little harsh. One "commercial product" link out of 69 non-spam answers and four pages of non-spam messages isn't the behaviour of a typical spammer.
Is there now a blanket ban on posting links to commercial products in QA, even if they're highlighted as such?
"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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You misunderstood. I reported that message as spam. Headshot functionality was not in place for some day. This time, it worked and his account got closed.
Further, if Admin thinks so, he can get his account back. But yes, link to commercial product IS spam,so should be reported ('If it helps OP,it's allowed' is debatable). It's totally different thing whether to report account or not. In this case, i would not report the account.
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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Would you agree to shedding all your Sitecore posts, and not posting any further ones if you were re-instated?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I haven't made any posts on QA or Discussion RE Sitecore, I use Sitecore in my username as I am in the process of building a Sitecore blog and thought having that as part of CP would be beneficial to exposure (and it has been), and I include my blog posts as part of my Technical Articles. I appreciate Sitecore is a commercial product, obviously it is, but so is Visual Studio, MS Word, Excel etc and people ask and answer questions about that all the time. If my blogs (or posts) were sales related then I could understand it being undesirable, but the blogs are purely technical and there to help people who use Sitecore, even though I know it is a small niche market. As a side-effect to mirroring my blog posts on CP I have also been taking part in the QA and Discussion forum on the site so as to not just be a "free loader" taking the increased exposure and giving nothing back in return, and as has been kindly pointed out by Richard, my activity in that regard has been far from spammy.
Hopefully the above clarifies where I feel my position is, and if you still want me to remove the blog articles and not submit any more then I'll agree to do that, but obviously I'd appreciate it if there could be a re-think on the situation that would allow me to keep the blogs and continue as before, as it was my main reason for joining the site.
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You are most welcome to continue sharing your blog on CodeProject, but no more blog entries about Sitecore. I've removed the existing ones and restored your account. Also, please no mentions or links anywhere else on the site to Sitecore.
If your account gets reported again, it will not be restored.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Ok, thanks for your time.
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I must admit I'm a bit confused.
Disclaimer: I can't see his posts / articles or tips about the product anymore so hard to judge.
But if the articles really where about how to use the product and provide technical information about it, then why should this not be allowed?
Provided it doesn't actually try to "sell" the product but merely provides a "how to do this with this product" kind of thing.
Is that any different than asking a technical question in Q/A about the product? (there have been plenty of questions about Crystal reports and other products)
One of the reasons I "question" this is the fact that lately I see the tendency to pull the trigger on the whole "this is spam, lets nuke the hell out of him" a bit to fast.
I understand that spam is a real problem and should be taken care of.
I just hate to see a potential valuable member be nuked just because of 1 mistake. But then again maybe I'm to forgiving.
I of course have no knowledge about any possible legal issues surrounding this so ...
Tom
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It's a super blurry line, Tom. The amount of people I've caught coming in with a facade of "I'm not associated with that company" posting on products that they were either paid to post on, or were just straight up evangelists for the company themselves, is so high, crackdowns must occur. It's simply been abused too much.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I understand that, and honestly I wouldn't want to be in your shoes having to deal with this all the time.
My only concern is, that we don't get jaded (no idea if that is the right word but...) and throw out the good with the bad.
Anyway it was in no way a criticism against you or the team. Only a concern.
As I said before I appreciate the amount of work you guys do a lot.
And in the end it is your decision
Tom
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