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"Use the search" is NOT CONSTRUCTIVE!!!

You know, while I realize that it can be annoying as hell when someone asks about the Touch Plugin, SMS threader, insert your whatever here, especially when there's a thread on that very thing about three lines down from the top, responding to a thread by saying "Use the search function, noob," really doesn't help a whole lot. I just spent half an hour pouring over about 30 god-damned threads filled with irrelevant bullsh!t and flame wars about how the original poster should use the search function. Well you know what? I DID use the search function, and ended up getting post after post telling me to do so. Every time we respond to a post without answering it, it shows up later to screw someone over who's actually been doing what they should. So please, if you must tell some new-comer to search before posting, at least follow it up by telling him where to find his answer, so it doesn't affect the rest of us later.
Alternatively, perhaps the mods could delete these threads entirely. And while they're at it, if they could improve the search feature, that'd be great too, because it totally sucks right now. Can't search "SMS" or "3G" or anything else under three letters, which can be kind of a big deal around here. Doesn't have quotation function. Lots of room for improvement.

Wow. Looks like you got it all figured out now.

You're right, the integrated search kinda blows. Try this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=298893
2 letters, 3 letters, quotes, you name it. It's a sticky in the 'Hermes' forum. But should be in all of the forums IMHO.
BTW, make sure you include Hermes in the search term to get Hermes specific results.

Oleschuldad said:
Wow. Looks like you got it all figured out now.
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A fine example of an INCONSTRUCTIVE answer, if you know better, why didnt u suggest the google search to him smart arse?
Check my signature for a link

Blowfish64 said:
You know, while I realize that it can be annoying as hell when someone asks about the Touch Plugin, SMS threader, insert your whatever here, especially when there's a thread on that very thing about three lines down from the top, responding to a thread by saying "Use the search function, noob," really doesn't help a whole lot. I just spent half an hour pouring over about 30 god-damned threads filled with irrelevant bullsh!t and flame wars about how the original poster should use the search function. Well you know what? I DID use the search function, and ended up getting post after post telling me to do so. Every time we respond to a post without answering it, it shows up later to screw someone over who's actually been doing what they should. So please, if you must tell some new-comer to search before posting, at least follow it up by telling him where to find his answer, so it doesn't affect the rest of us later.
Alternatively, perhaps the mods could delete these threads entirely. And while they're at it, if they could improve the search feature, that'd be great too, because it totally sucks right now. Can't search "SMS" or "3G" or anything else under three letters, which can be kind of a big deal around here. Doesn't have quotation function. Lots of room for improvement.
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Google Search Link:
EDIT: Gave wrong link!!! sorry
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:http://forum.xda-developers.com&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=allhttp://www.google.com/advanced_search?q= +site:http://wiki.xda-developers.com&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all
BTW: what was the problem you were searching for to make you this pissed off? everyone gets the n00b stuff, it jus happens. ill try to help u

Bennec83, your link goes to the wiki specific search instead of the forum search...is that on purpose? Just trying to see if you know something I don't--like a better way to search!

bennec83 said:
A fine example of an INCONSTRUCTIVE answer, if you know better, why didnt u suggest the google search to him smart arse?
Check my signature for a link
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A fine example of an inconstructive answer? That's unpossible.

Wow, that search link works MUCH better. Thanks a lot to Fitipaldi1 and bennec83 who linked it! And I did find what I was looking for. Just took longer than it needed to. Thanks again.

inbelievable at least
SPOON!!

LittleTinyMonkey said:
A fine example of an inconstructive answer? That's unpossible.
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[FONT=&quot]Sorry its 4am and I am providing links to Google, for those who don’t actually know how to do a Google search!!
I do sincerely and whole heartedly apologise for the fact that my articulation, vocabulary and grammar don’t meet your highest of standards, but then I was publicly educated.[/FONT]

support my solution
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hiimcliff said:
support my solution[/size]http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1389723&postcount=5
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A link that doesnt work? i dont understand?

bennec83 said:
A link that doesnt work? i dont understand?
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i fix it smart ass

bennec83 said:
[FONT=&quot]Sorry its 4am and I am providing links to Google, for those who don’t actually know how to do a Google search!!
I do sincerely and whole heartedly apologise for the fact that my articulation, vocabulary and grammar don’t meet your highest of standards, but then I was publicly educated.[/FONT]
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Don't worry... It's 3am in my time, and US Public Schools isn't much better!

I have to say that its not just this forum that people insist on stating the obvious e.g. use the search.
I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of if you haven't got anything constructive or useful to say then don't say it.. e.g. don't be a smart @rse, don't post "use the Search" if it winds you up then ignore it and look away...

Number of Referrals?

What does the number of Referrals in user profile statistics mean?

vichet007 said:
What does the number of Referrals in user profile statistics mean?
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You can either, create a referrals URL, so that you give this to your friends, and they join via the URL and you get a referral.
Or
When registering (I'm told) there is a field to enter the name of an existing member who referred you to this site.
Dave

I've wondered about that too.
Thanks for clearing it up.

DaveShaw said:
You can either, create a referrals URL, so that you give this to your friends, and they join via the URL and you get a referral.
Or
When registering (I'm told) there is a field to enter the name of an existing member who referred you to this site.
Dave
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I still have absolutely no idea as to how I have come to have four of them Don't suppose there's a way to see who I referred?

ben_duder said:
I still have absolutely no idea as to how I have come to have four of them Don't suppose there's a way to see who I referred?
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Not in the Mod CP, maybe your posts inspired someone to join, remember a lot of people only join to download attachments .

DaveShaw said:
Not in the Mod CP, maybe your posts inspired someone to join, remember a lot of people only join to download attachments .
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Haha yeah, I doubt my contributions have encouraged them to though

ben_duder said:
Haha yeah, I doubt my contributions have encouraged them to though
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Surely 1 of the 609 must be worth something...
Now time to scour my 7000 for something worth while

DaveShaw said:
Surely 1 of the 609 must be worth something...
Now time to scour my 7000 for something worth while
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You'd be surprised I tend to be less helpful when I try to be, so maybe I should just flame my way to the big 1000
PS: If you're not too busy, can you mention to the powers that be the idea of having your phone, ROM and radio in your username bar (the thing to the left of each post - don't know what it's called...). It was mentioned in this thread as it went a little off topic in the second page, but it seems to have fizzled out a bit.
I think it would be a very useful idea as a lot of support threads ask for such information and quite a lot of users would rather not keep it in their signatures. It also standardises the layout of such things so you can quickly check which phone/ROM/whatever the user is talking about.
I suppose the issues would arise when someone has more than two or three phones as it would make the posts longer, but even then it wouldn't get so bad until it hit around five devices, as it's just two or three lines for each one. Maybe a drop-down box could be used for the device and we could recommend only including primary devices in that, while keeping older ones for your signature only.

ben_duder said:
You'd be surprised I tend to be less helpful when I try to be, so maybe I should just flame my way to the big 1000
PS: If you're not too busy, can you mention to the powers that be the idea of having your phone, ROM and radio in your username bar (the thing to the left of each post - don't know what it's called...). It was mentioned in this thread as it went a little off topic in the second page, but it seems to have fizzled out a bit.
I think it would be a very useful idea as a lot of support threads ask for such information and quite a lot of users would rather not keep it in their signatures. It also standardises the layout of such things so you can quickly check which phone/ROM/whatever the user is talking about.
I suppose the issues would arise when someone has more than two or three phones as it would make the posts longer, but even then it wouldn't get so bad until it hit around five devices, as it's just two or three lines for each one. Maybe a drop-down box could be used for the device and we could recommend only including primary devices in that, while keeping older ones for your signature only.
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It has already been suggested by some other mods, I can't recall who .

Okay, cool. Thanks!
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Thanks for explanation Dave. Got it now.
DaveShaw said:
You can either, create a referrals URL, so that you give this to your friends, and they join via the URL and you get a referral.
Or
When registering (I'm told) there is a field to enter the name of an existing member who referred you to this site.
Dave
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I could have sworn that at one point I'd been able to see who my referred sign-ups were, but I can't for the life of me find it now.
I've got 24, and although that's not a lot I'm a bit stumped as to how!
Is there a way to see who has signed up due to my referrals?

johncmolyneux said:
I could have sworn that at one point I'd been able to see who my referred sign-ups were, but I can't for the life of me find it now.
I've got 24, and although that's not a lot I'm a bit stumped as to how!
Is there a way to see who has signed up due to my referrals?
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I don't think that is something you can see yourself.

pulser_g2 said:
I don't think that is something you can see yourself.
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Poo. Ah well, cheers mate

Old thread, but wanted to post the method for creating a referrals URL since Dave's link above did not work..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/register.php?referrerid=4238197 <- replace this number with your user ID number
To find your user ID number, click on your user name in the upper right hand corner and see the new URL change in your location bar. Here is mine. Note the u= on the end.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4238197
Referrals doesn't seem to do anything, but it is nice to know that I inspired someone to join up and hopefully contribute.

[RESOLVED] [Q] [REQ] Strikethrough?

Resolved - Already implemented. Lock/ignore this thread
Any chance we could get a strikethrough feature in the forums here? The use is obvious but I will give an example anyway. I report a bug, that bug was added to a buglist in the original post but the software in regard is still pending a bugfix. Making this strikethrough makes it obvious for other users to ignore it, and editing the post by just deleting the text is a inconsistent in regards to completion and research. [EDIT] In other words, other readers will see that this matter has been reported and is being taken care of. Assuming the majority of our users are moderately intelligent, this could make the place a LOT cleaner. [/EDIT]
There's no need to add a button even, just for those "in the know" to use even with ... bbcode or add the <del>...</del> HTML tags to the forum software's allowed tags.
I understand that some forums do not like this feature but I can't remember why, I always found it very useful when editing my posts. It's a lot less annoying for other readers than to completely delete an entire paragraph of text. With that said, if there is a reason why this won't be implemented I will not press it any further.
Thanks!

Noobish double post

Are you talking about this?
Wrap with strike tags like this...
HTML:
[strike]strike text goes here[/strike]

Archer said:
Are you talking about this?
Wrap with strike tags like this...
HTML:
[strike]strike text goes here[/strike]
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Yeah a lot of sites use , but we use

Oh! I tried and [del] but never even thought of . Silly me. Thanks heaps guys! THIS THREAD IS OVER

sorry for the thread necro, but does the WYSIWYG editor allow for selecting text instead of having to manually edit the post with - as I cant see the option.

b1k3rdude said:
sorry for the thread necro, but does the WYSIWYG editor allow for selecting text instead of having to manually edit the post with - as I cant see the option.
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I think the "S" button is right at the end of the buttons (on Phone ATM)

No Right click on posts box,so can't use Goolges spellchecker

Like on this post,I can't right click so If I make a misstake and its hilighted with a red line under it and can't use the spell checker to crect it. see they are a lot of misstake in this post and I can't sort them out cos I can't right click...??
I have altisam and have a problem with my spelling.

What do you mean? It's working perfectly here, check the screenshot attached below. I wouldn't worry too much about spelling on XDA anyway. After all, the focus is on development. It's better to have well written code than to have well written posts =)

Yea, I'm not sure what your issue could be. Right click isn't disabled or modified in any way on XDA.
Try another browser as a test?

Unable To Use Advanced Edit - PROBLEM SOLVED!!

Hiya everybody,
Im having difficulty using the advanced edit option. I want to edit the title of one of my threads but when I click on the button I get a 502 Bad Gateway error.
I tried using XDA Labs but that failed as well.
Anybody else experiencing this?
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This has now been resolved. If anybody's reading this with a similar issue, read the next few posts.

Ticklefish said:
Hiya everybody,
Im having difficulty using the advanced edit option. I want to edit the title of one of my threads but when I click on the button I get a 502 Bad Gateway error.
I tried using XDA Labs but that failed as well.
Anybody else experiencing this?
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It's working fine for me.
What country, isp/carrier, browser...
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sd_shadow said:
It's working fine for me.
What country, isp/carrier, browser...
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England, Virgin Media and whatever we use at work, IE/Chrome..
No matter what I use from where, I always get the same issue. It's really annoying.
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Ticklefish said:
England, Virgin Media and whatever we use at work, IE/Chrome..
No matter what I use from where, I always get the same issue. It's really annoying.
Sent from my Sony Xperia XA1 using XDA Labs
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Maybe @MikeChannon or @svetius can take a look.

Ticklefish said:
Hiya everybody,
Im having difficulty using the advanced edit option. I want to edit the title of one of my threads but when I click on the button I get a 502 Bad Gateway error.
I tried using XDA Labs but that failed as well.
Anybody else experiencing this?
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Is it doing this on different PC browsers. Sounds like a browser issue BUT it might be something about the thread.
Can you link to the thread in question and just as a matter of interest does it do it on other threads of yours.... like this one?
Mike

MikeChannon said:
Is it doing this on different PC browsers. Sounds like a browser issue BUT it might be something about the thread.
Can you link to the thread in question and just as a matter of interest does it do it on other threads of yours.... like this one?
Mike
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It happens on Safari as well (sorry to swear like that..ahem..) however it looks like I've just been able to change this threads title so it could just be the individual thread after all.
The thread in question is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25621581
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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Ticklefish said:
It happens on Safari as well (sorry to swear like that..ahem..) however it looks like I've just been able to change this threads title so it could just be the individual thread after all.
The thread in question is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25621581
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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A couple of years ago, or so.
I had a thread that I couldn't edit the title, so I just used the report post button, and asked that a Mod edit the title for me.
After the Mod edited the title, I was able to edit it myself again, don't remember if some reason why was found or not.

Ticklefish said:
Hiya everybody,
Im having difficulty using the advanced edit option. I want to edit the title of one of my threads but when I click on the button I get a 502 Bad Gateway error.
I tried using XDA Labs but that failed as well.
Anybody else experiencing this?
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Ok, bit of a disaster here.
I tried to edit the title by adding a period "." at the end of the title.
That worked, however after saving it removed the graphics!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or at least the graphic links you see in the text editor are still there but all screwed up.
You may be able to add them back but it's going to be a pain... sorry.
I have seen this exact same corruption before and I've spoken to bitpushr about it a few times but he could never replicate the problem.
Quite a few people have this happen to them, my feeling is that it happens when the OP uses unusual fonts or characters and it may be too that copying in content to the post from other sources like MS Word etc., causes stray code to get in and corrupt the post. I strongly suspect that's why it was giving you the Gateway error to begin with.
It might be worth re creating the first post without using any copied in text or at least just plain text and formatting within the post... then deleting the existing post one.
This would need to be done very carefully as any accidental deletion of post #1 will delete the thread.
Another method might be to create a new thread, get post one just right and working, then we copy across all the posts from 2 onward to the new thread and delete the old thread.
Mike

MikeChannon said:
Ok, bit of a disaster here.
I tried to edit the title by adding a period "." at the end of the title.
That worked, however after saving it removed the graphics!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or at least the graphic links you see in the text editor are still there but all screwed up.
You may be able to add them back but it's going to be a pain... sorry.
I have seen this exact same corruption before and I've spoken to bitpushr about it a few times but he could never replicate the problem.
Quite a few people have this happen to them, my feeling is that it happens when the OP uses unusual fonts or characters and it may be too that copying in content to the post from other sources like MS Word etc., causes stray code to get in and corrupt the post. I strongly suspect that's why it was giving you the Gateway error to begin with.
It might be worth re creating the first post without using any copied in text or at least just plain text and formatting within the post... then deleting the existing post one.
This would need to be done very carefully as any accidental deletion of post #1 will delete the thread.
Another method might be to create a new thread, get post one just right and working, then we copy across all the posts from 2 onward to the new thread and delete the old thread.
Mike
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Thank you for that, I'm trying the advanced edit now...and it seems to work. No gateway error!
Losing the image links isn't a problem - I have the whole thread saved as a TXT file anyway. I normally write the longer posts in Notepad++, I just find it easier. I used to access this site through IE at work and I noticed that the advanced edit messed up the image links there as well. But not if I used Chrome.
I guess I must have put an unusual code in there at some point over the years..hmm.. Oh well, a good excuse for a refresh!
I'll keep an eye on this and, if I have problems in the future, I'll bear your advice in mind. :highfive:
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502 gateway error again when I try to update the post with new text and a new title. I'll try just updating the title for now. Maybe I need to rewrite the post that much sooner!
Wait...wait...nope, now it's working. Post updated finally! Thanks so much for all your help!
sd_shadow said:
A couple of years ago, or so.
I had a thread that I couldn't edit the title, so I just used the report post button, and asked that a Mod edit the title for me.
After the Mod edited the title, I was able to edit it myself again, don't remember if some reason why was found or not.
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A good idea, I'll definitely remember that in the future.

Ticklefish said:
Thank you for that, I'm trying the advanced edit now...and it seems to work. No gateway error!
Losing the image links isn't a problem - I have the whole thread saved as a TXT file anyway. I normally write the longer posts in Notepad++, I just find it easier. I used to access this site through IE at work and I noticed that the advanced edit messed up the image links there as well. But not if I used Chrome.
I guess I must have put an unusual code in there at some point over the years..hmm.. Oh well, a good excuse for a refresh!
I'll keep an eye on this and, if I have problems in the future, I'll bear your advice in mind. :highfive:
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502 gateway error again when I try to update the post with new text and a new title. I'll try just updating the title for now. Maybe I need to rewrite the post that much sooner!
Wait...wait...nope, now it's working. Post updated finally! Thanks so much for all your help!
A good idea, I'll definitely remember that in the future.
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Agh! good some progress at least.
So the idea of getting a Mod to slightly edit the title works then. Except:silly:, don't get me to do it as all the graphics go wrong (I use the WYSIWYG editor too.
Mike

MikeChannon said:
Agh! good some progress at least.
So the idea of getting a Mod to slightly edit the title works then. Except:silly:, don't get me to do it as all the graphics go wrong (I use the WYSIWYG editor too.
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The saga continues...
I thought I had this but it looks like I was wrong. Advanced edit works now. I did some trial and error and worked out that error was being caused by one of the mentions I had in there. It looks like I had too many and that's what was causing the gateway error.
But I still can't change the title. I put in a new title and, although I don't get any errors, the title doesn't actually change. It's still the way it was when you changed it.
While I'm trying to get this sorted out, could I please ask a favour? Could you possibly change the title to "[TOOL]Tickle My Android - Decompile & Deodex With Ease"? I normally have the version number in there but I'm beginning to suspect I may have to have a static title rather than one I keep changing...

Ticklefish said:
The saga continues...
I thought I had this but it looks like I was wrong. Advanced edit works now. I did some trial and error and worked out that error was being caused by one of the mentions I had in there. It looks like I had too many and that's what was causing the gateway error.
But I still can't change the title. I put in a new title and, although I don't get any errors, the title doesn't actually change. It's still the way it was when you changed it.
While I'm trying to get this sorted out, could I please ask a favour? Could you possibly change the title to "[TOOL]Tickle My Android - Decompile & Deodex With Ease"? I normally have the version number in there but I'm beginning to suspect I may have to have a static title rather than one I keep changing...
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OK, updated the title.
Used Chrome as Firefox might have removed all the pics again
Mike

MikeChannon said:
OK, updated the title.
Used Chrome as Firefox might have removed all the pics again
Mike
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Thanks. The title's changed and the images are still there. I think I might leave it alone now. Don't want to tempt fate after all..
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