jaytea commented on a Page, Merlin  -  Jun 05, 2011

this appears to be taken almost verbatim from: http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/689-agentcontrolmerlin-vbs - the only changes made are to the example strings.

the original author even has a loop at the bottom that accomplishes nothing, and was presumably left behind from a more complete script. the fact that you've kept it in your example and even went as far as to remove the otherwise important Sleep statement shows that you don't have a firm understanding of the snippet you've posted.

the rules may dictate that a certain amount of the edited work needs to be your own, but i think what the rule means to imply is that, in borrowing and editing someone else's code, you have put in a reasonable degree of effort into the work such that you can, in good conscience, then be labeled a representative of the final product.

this doesn't appear to be the case in any of the work that you have posted recently. the scripts people post here do not have to be original and perfectly coded masterpieces, but you should at least refrain from posting code until you can claim to be a worthy representative of that code. in the case of a small demonstrative snippet such as this, this means knowing precisely what each part of it does.

there is no shame in holding off on posting code until you are ready to do so. in fact, you may even save yourself future cringing.

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