Removing complete solutions

[Joseph Michael]

Knute Snortum, i saw you have removed the code given by Andrian. Although the user may provide a code from his side. we shouldn't stop anothers in posting the code and helping them out. Please re-think.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Split from this thread because we usually discuss this sort of question in the Ranch Office.

[Campbell Ritchie]

We work on the assumption that users of this site are trying to learn programming. Simply posting a solution wouldn't provide any learning experience; you gain nothing by copying somebody else's code unchanged. Look what it says on the forum you posted on:-

We're all here to learn, so when responding to others, please focus on helping them discover their own solutions, instead of simply providing answers.

You were given several helpful suggestions; since you hadn't shown any sign of trying any, I think Knute Snortum was right to obscure the complete solution. Had you followed Piet Souris's suggestion, you would have found a solution quite easily.

[Adrian Grabowski]

Yeah, apologies if I broke some rule but decided that my code wasn't a complete solution as it only cut one image in half horizontally, OP wanted to be able to cut it both ways and process multiple files so there was a lot of room for improvement. It also didn't look like some school assignment.

[paul wheaton]

Joseph Michael wrote:Knute Snortum, i saw you have removed the code given by Andrian. Although the user may provide a code from his side. we shouldn't stop anothers in posting the code and helping them out. Please re-think.

Joseph,

I, and I alone, will decide the rules, policies and "shoulds" of this site.  Please re-think.

If you learn how and why we do things now, you are welcome to make suggestions in the future.