Code Project's Webmaster hates me.
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So you thought reposting it here and now is a good idea?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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So you thought reposting it here and now is a good idea?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
What? I did not repost it.
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Suck it up.
Thanks for your input.
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What? I did not repost it.
It looks to me like you're advertising in the Lounge
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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It looks to me like you're advertising in the Lounge
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
By griping about being treated differently than the other posters to that particular forum? You have an odd definition of "advertising".
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By griping about being treated differently than the other posters to that particular forum? You have an odd definition of "advertising".
Every line of your quoted text is an advert. Even bad press is press
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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It looks to me like you're advertising in the Lounge
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
You wrote:
Every line of your quoted text is an advert.
Even bad press is press
Yes, that was the point I was making. All of those lines are ads. They are from OTHER posts in the Press Releases forum. But mine, which I did NOT quote in my comment, was singled out for deletion. If ads are not allowed there, then pretty much every single entry in the Press Releases forum should be deleted.
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You wrote:
Every line of your quoted text is an advert.
Even bad press is press
Yes, that was the point I was making. All of those lines are ads. They are from OTHER posts in the Press Releases forum. But mine, which I did NOT quote in my comment, was singled out for deletion. If ads are not allowed there, then pretty much every single entry in the Press Releases forum should be deleted.
Ed Gadziemski wrote:
If ads are not allowed there, then pretty much every single entry in the Press Releases forum should be deleted.
You can always ask the Master Content Editor about what is tolerated and what is not - Drop him an email: sean [AT] codeproject [DOT] com If one of the webmasters has removed it, Sean will be able to tell you why and (if) how you can post your press release. If it wasn't a webmaster who removed the post, it may just been some members with a happy trigger finger. It's what happens when you give away a part of the control to the community.
"A property doesn't have to be a Property to be a property." - PIEBALDConsult
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You wrote:
Every line of your quoted text is an advert.
Even bad press is press
Yes, that was the point I was making. All of those lines are ads. They are from OTHER posts in the Press Releases forum. But mine, which I did NOT quote in my comment, was singled out for deletion. If ads are not allowed there, then pretty much every single entry in the Press Releases forum should be deleted.
I assume it relates to this thread[^] in the S&A forum, with this response[^] from the Hamster In Chief:
Chris Maunder wrote:
Press releases are intended to discuss stuff that's newsworthy. That press release was, unfortunately, an advertisement. This article[^] sums it up nicely.
"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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I assume it relates to this thread[^] in the S&A forum, with this response[^] from the Hamster In Chief:
Chris Maunder wrote:
Press releases are intended to discuss stuff that's newsworthy. That press release was, unfortunately, an advertisement. This article[^] sums it up nicely.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
Thanks for passing on that comment, Richard. It's a shame the comment thread wasn't cc'ed to me. It's hard to learn new things when you're excluded from a discussion. It would've been helpful if I'd gotten some sort of canned message about why my post disappeared and how it could become acceptable. Instead, it just went into a black hole. It seems the key difference between an ad and an acceptable press release is whether it's written in 2nd person or 3rd person. From the press release right below mine: "This product also makes an excellent alternative for those professionals that work in their own home-offices." Changing "their own home-office" to "your own home-office" would make it an advertisement. One of the oddest things is that my post is now a zombie. It says "Message Removed" and I can't delete the entry. Makes me wonder why the entry wasn't simply removed. Ed
