Whos a moderator or deals with the organization of the threads? Because i think we need to add an android section to multiple devices, the kaiser the vogue, diamond, touch pro, touch hd. Is there any way to keep noobs from posting stuff in forums that doesnt even relate to whats going on in said thread? Or does someone have to delete the useless stuff like people just posting to tell other people not to post about nothing?
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Whos a moderator or deals with the organization of the threads? Because i think we need to add an android section to multiple devices, the kaiser the vogue, diamond, touch pro, touch hd. Is there any way to keep noobs from posting stuff in forums that doesnt even relate to whats going on in said thread? Or does someone have to delete the useless stuff like people just posting to tell other people not to post about nothing?
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The sub-forums are all there, if someone posts in the wrong section, simply point them in the right direction.
What you have said is the general idea of what happens here.
its not even that people just want to say oh dude i cant wait for android and then some other person will be like thats not important and people just get totally off topic. theres like 1500 post in the form or more and less than a quater are actually information on the development and whats going on... also maybe aswell as having a rom development subsection their could be a linux development section rather than just an android section cause its totally possible to boot debian or some distro of linux on these handsets.
All the moderators have their user names marked in red and have 'Moderator' appear under it (as you have 'Junior Member').
Also you can look here to see which mod you should talk to regarding specific forums.
(This list is mostly a suggestion and may be incomplete, if you can't get an answer from a mod of a specific sub forum, or the sub forum does not have a mod you can contact any moderator)
Please note that if you have a problem with a post or a thread you can use the 'report' button (with the ! sign) to report it and we will take care of it.
Also if you have a suggestion you are welcome to post in the 'About' section.
And to answer your question: there is no way to keep noobs from posting the wrong stuff or in the wrong place. Mistakes are part of being new to something.
If you see a thread you think is just clutter or out of place you can help by reporting it.
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its not even that people just want to say oh dude i cant wait for android and then some other person will be like thats not important and people just get totally off topic. theres like 1500 post in the form or more and less than a quater are actually information on the development and whats going on... also maybe aswell as having a rom development subsection their could be a linux development section rather than just an android section cause its totally possible to boot debian or some distro of linux on these handsets.
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sorry but its not just your thread.....your have to get used to it
no point getting worked up over it
they think they are helping...but we know otherwise
Are you GOD???
All over the wisdom!!!!!
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Men... you were a n00b remember that!!! where you come from.
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Maybe there could be a basic reading test for new users.
if they fail to pass the test...
they cannot post.
seems like that would clean up this site rather nicely.
Here's the one required to be a moderator:
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In all seriousness, XDA is open to anyone from any country, you don't even have to know English, you can use a translator (such as google or babelfish).
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mnjm9b said:
Maybe there could be a basic reading test for new users.
if they fail to pass the test...
they cannot post.
seems like that would clean up this site rather nicely.
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That would be a rather tall order, wouldn't it? Or a very restrictive undertaking. Like in view of the fact that xda is read ALL over the world, in how many languages would the reading test be written?
Also, its not fair to judge someone on how well they talk/communicate/type etc. As Dave correctly stated, XDA is open to all.
Instead of screening all users, maybe existing users should try and be more considerate to those which find it hard to communicate or speak in english
I never said anything about language skills.
I understand there are communication barriers. even with different dialects of the same language.
What my issue is, when noobies completely CLOG many of the forums
with repetitive and basic questions that would be easily resolved if they would just read.
most of the time the answers are even in the OP that they are posting in.
it's like they don't even try.
while I am certain to have asked noobie questions myself, I think that the lack of effort for a person to at least try and answer there own questions is sure laziness.
and for that I have no patience to offer help to those people.
if a person is having a hard time understanding something...
well that is perfectly acceptable.
there ARE forum rules but how is that enforced???
what is the point of having those rules if they go unenforced?
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there ARE forum rules but how is that enforced???
what is the point of having those rules if they go unenforced?
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There must be well over a hundred posts an hour on this forum. No-one has the time to read all of them. If we explicitly enforced the forum rules on everyone who broke them most of the users on here would be banned (even us mods ). We each monitor the device forums we are most fluent (and sometimes not so much) in and close / move and occasionally delete posts / threads that do not belong. There will always be people who don't want to read and just want a quick solution and there are those that don't and actually spend the time helping themselves and others. The best we can do is to encourage them into posting in the correct threads, or searching for their answers first.
When there are posts that are clearly duplicate / redundant or in the wrong forum, they can be reported to the mods with a helpful message (why is it redundant, where does it need moving to, links to threads, etc?) and we will look into them.
Thanks,
Dave
How about just banning curse words? Ban F***, S***, B****, A******, F**, F******, A**, DumbA**, W****, etc. I'm sure users would adapt to say mother clucker instead of mother f*****, but it would be a welcome improvement in my eyes.
Just wondering if anyone else is trying to do a little hack we can apply to current roms were using... I'm still on the fence if I want cm6 (when its done) or stock rooted froyo with that hack. Is it possible on a sense Rom?
Awesome bump
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I think everyone in the thread should hug it out ......
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hahaha
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thread cleaned needs to stay on topic now. also questions need to be posted in the Q&A forum. we have that rule and forum for a reason... to answer questions. when u post in the development forum u make me or someone else come through and clean up ur mistake. i move/delete 60-80 threads a day. and one more doesnt help. please follow the forum rules and post in the proper section. one should not get mad if because they posted in the wrong forum get mad because they are informed that they are doing so. if you do not wanna be told you are doing the wrong thing then i would suggest posting in the correct forum. the members are tired of the development section being cluttered with Q&A posts. this cause important information to be pushed down the forum and buried under countless questions. so all and all just do the right thing and post questions in Q&A. thank you enjoy the day
Q&a section gets answered Lmao. Not even one speculation...
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Q&a section gets answered Lmao. Not even one speculation...
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Aw this finally got moved, I was waiting for it to be moved to answer.
Yes, there are 4 people working on this that I know of.... cm6 and crew, apparently once cyanogen gets his hdmi cable in the mail he speculates it will be pretty quick and easy to do. Also, this thread actually has some code they're testing. There are 2 other people, one on androidforums.com and the other on ppc that are also working on this project. If you would like exact links I can look them up. Cheers!
spiicytuna said:
Aw this finally got moved, I was waiting for it to be moved to answer.
Yes, there are 4 people working on this that I know of.... cm6 and crew, apparently once cyanogen gets his hdmi cable in the mail he speculates it will be pretty quick and easy to do. Also, this thread actually has some code they're testing. There are 2 other people, one on androidforums.com and the other on ppc that are also working on this project. If you would like exact links I can look them up. Cheers!
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No wonder no one likes you. You live in the UK.
Anyone having time issues with there devices? Today found that my phone was 10 min fast, had to revert in settings on date and time, I have gingersense B3 2.3.3.
I read some where that this is going on over the pond also, whats your thoughts??
It has nothing to do with gingersense it happened to my wife's non rooted stock incredible.
yeah the other day mine was running 7 minutes too fast. A reset will fix it but it was odd I am running the leaked gingerbread
Its actually a world-wide issue. From the US to the UK.
I just turned off my automatic clock sync and switched to manual until we figure out whats happening.
I just went to settings (clock) and switched to manual then back to automatic and it fixed itself.
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I just went to settings (clock) and switched to manual then back to automatic and it fixed itself.
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Ditto, but why is this in development?
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Ditto, but why is this in development?
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Because no one knows how to use forums.
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whats your thoughts??
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First thought is that the ten post threshold may be too low because someone posted something so utterly off topic in the dev forum.
The reason why people post questions in the DEV section is because if the question is relevant to developing ie HOW TO DO THIS.. OR THAT OR WHAT KERNEL RUNS BEST.. etc who better to ask than the developers. Why would someone go post a technical question about something in a generic question and answer section when no one with any knowledge will answer the question. Basically you people who have nothing better to do than NAZI a forum need to go put a D*&K in your mouth. Next time my car breaks down Ill go take it my drycleaners!
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The reason why people post questions in the DEV section is because if the question is relevant to developing ie HOW TO DO THIS.. OR THAT OR WHAT KERNEL RUNS BEST.. etc who better to ask than the developers. Why would someone go post a technical question about something in a generic question and answer section when no one with any knowledge will answer the question. Basically you people who have nothing better to do than NAZI a forum need to go put a D*&K in your mouth. Next time my car breaks down Ill go take it my drycleaners!
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You realize developers can read the Q&A and General sections right? Just sayin'.
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The clown who posted the picture proves my point. Sure devs can read the q @ a - How many really do - My drycleaner can also look at my car and try to fix it - Doesnt mean he is the person I want working on my car. Point being either answer the question with an inteligent answer or dont bother what is the point of being a forum nazi.
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The clown who posted the picture proves my point. Sure devs can read the q @ a - How many really do - My drycleaner can also look at my car and try to fix it - Doesnt mean he is the person I want working on my car. Point being either answer the question with an inteligent answer or dont bother what is the point of being a forum nazi.
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Hey I'm not a clown! Well not licensed anyway.... oh well looks like its in the right section now so maybe you'll get an answer or find a solution. Good luck
You're questions aren't special but you are
We are blessed to have this place to learn about our devices and have access to the work of all of the great developers. The least we can do is fallow the rules and respect the developers. Maybe some of us haven't read the rules, here's a good post from the last moderator of our forum on why we keep questions out of the development section and here's the general forum rules which plainly states that we should watch our language and respect other members. Thanks everyone for contributing to such an amazing community
Hi there,
I apologise if this has been asked before (if it has can someone please redirect me to the relevent request?) but this is something I think would be nice to have for the XDA website if such a thing were possible to implement: searching for keywords within just one thread. Think about all the threads we have in here for numerous custom ROMs, themes, kernels etc where there are lots of people browsing and posting in said threads. As you probably know they can fill up quite quickly the more popular they get, which can make things harder for people who want to know whether a particular issue they have with a custom component (e.g. WiFi issues with a custom ROM, missing icons in a theme etc) is only apparent in their scenario or whether it's a bug of sorts which a number of people are experiencing. This I would argue is made harder still by the new 'iron fist' policy I've read about on this forum, which I understand is in place to basically keep the forum clean from rude/offensive posts, so-called 'trolling', and possibly repeat posts for things that have been posted about already (is this bit right?). I know that you can narrow down your search to only select sub-forums but even then you might also get similar posts from other threads within that sub-forum(s) which might not be in the thread you're looking for (e.g. it might be in a thread for a completely different ROM).
I can understand if something like this will be too complicated to implement from the forum admins' perspective but I thought I'd put it out there in case anyone didn't think of it before.
Thanks for reading .
like this?
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**** ...yeah, bit like that . Thanks for pointing out my stupidity .
They should implement this in XDA app too.
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Idiot.
ok so, sorry for my bluntness.. the asshole in me couldnt resist... but honestly the system i pointed out dosen't work.. i tried searching for specific strings in THIS THREAD and never got any results.. even searching for "like this?" my post and got nothing.. hmmm
So ya.. its there but it works barely.. if at all... maby a WORKING "search this thread" would be handy.. Devs???
Edit: just noticed that every post in this thread got a thanks... but mine.. the one that answered your post... whats up with that???
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geraldf80 said:
ok so, sorry for my bluntness.. the asshole in me couldnt resist... but honestly the system i pointed out dosen't work.. i tried searching for specific strings in THIS THREAD and never got any results.. even searching for "like this?" my post and got nothing.. hmmm
So ya.. its there but it works barely.. if at all... maby a WORKING "search this thread" would be handy.. Devs???
Edit: just noticed that every post in this thread got a thanks... but mine.. the one that answered your post... whats up with that???
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worked for me. Remember it searches for any of the words in the string, not exact matches. I think this has been discussed before as just the way it is.
@ OP
Please tell me that you are on crack and wasnt just dropped on your head at birth.
Seriously though what a complete and utter fail.
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@ OP
Please tell me that you are on crack and wasnt just dropped on your head at birth.
Seriously though what a complete and utter fail.
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Haha I probably was high for all I know . Yes it was a big fail on my part, even though I don't come here all that often . This won't go away anytime soon, will it ?
OK,i know,tks.
Is there jelly bean sprint dialer so #*#*DATA#*#* stuff works ? If not is there a way to remove proxy settings on my phone?
Wrong section
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People should stop posting wrong section and report directly to a mod.
Once the moderator does find out he/she then has to move the thread, and if there are "wrong section, stupid head" posts he/she has to delete them.
Less work makes for a happy mod.
I don't see why you guys waste your time posting if you don't know the answer to the question, Being able to edit settings in custom rom is important with out having to use pc. Is sad to see two post that don't provide anything
Well, they work for me on cm10...
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I don't see why you guys waste your time posting if you don't know the answer to the question, Being able to edit settings in custom rom is important with out having to use pc. Is sad to see two post that don't provide anything
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And it's sad to see a post with such poor punctuation and grammar.
You know not to post in the development section for issues such as this, you've been a member for four years.
And my post wasn't even directed towards you.
tritron777 said:
I don't see why you guys waste your time posting if you don't know the answer to the question, Being able to edit settings in custom rom is important with out having to use pc. Is sad to see two post that don't provide anything
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Wow you failed to read the forum rules and have the nerve to tell people there wasting time... obviously you didn't graduate from school because if you knew how to read.. 1. You would have posted in the right section and 2. You would have knew how to use the search function because your question probably already has a post and answer.
I dont understand how hard that is to do. :silly:
If I learned one thing on XDA, it's this. Most people like to post in the wrong sections, because they know that they will get a faster answer and that more people will see it. They do it, despite the fact that they shouldn't. So, in theory, we should just ignore those that do it, because lets be honest...they know better and so should we. Now, I've also seen many members that know better, reply to these people and give them their answers, but they fail to see that, they are only feeding these people, to keep on doing it.
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