it may be useful in the Q&A sections to add the ability to mark a thread as solved. i have seen this on other forms and find it to be useful.
just a thought i figured i'd pass on. keep up the great work
3rdsurfer said:
it may be useful in the Q&A sections to add the ability to mark a thread as solved. i have seen this on other forms and find it to be useful.
just a thought i figured i'd pass on. keep up the great work
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The author could easily change the title and add solved to it......
Just thought I pass it on.
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Over the next few days, I'm going to do a bit of tidying up in the various Defy sections.
The first part of that involves a new sticky in each section clearly stating what that section is for, what threads are or are not appropriate (ie no questions in the Dev section).
Hopefully this'll help cut down on the number of threads that need moving.
The proposed second part I would like some feedback on...
The act of stickying certain threads/guides/etc I've always found a little hit-and-miss and can inadvertently lead to unintended favouritism, not to mention you can eventually end up with a ridiculous number of threads stickied.
So the idea I had was that in the General and Dev sections (the two that currently have stickied threads), those threads would be un-stickied and replaced with a roll-up thread - kinda like this except there would be no other threads stickied along with it (other than the one mentioned in the first part that would explain the purpose of the section).
It's just a way of trying to keep the section as tidy as possible, though it's not the messiest, which is why I'm not 100% set on going ahead and would prefer to hear what people think.
A little clean up is a good idea.
I'm for a main roll-up thread in every section, that way the useful guides/infos will be easier to find/edit.
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Hate when i see questions and request in dev section!
Do something!!!
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Do something!!!
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What do you suggest?
Seems good. I myself have two popular guides in the general section you can't have missed (soft-sim unlock and double boot). How will the roll-up thread work exactly?
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nogoodusername said:
Hate when i see questions and request in dev section!
Do something!!!
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Best thing for now is to report the thread for maintance/moving that's what i have been doing with the dev section
Thanks again Step666 for cleaning up the ones i reported...... +1 on the rollup thread thread it makes things a lot easier for new users as they can find everything in one thread.
support the idea fully (both), but have to ask for something: to always keep that one stickied thread up-to-date, otherwise it has no sense. and the thread you linked didnt mention the 'all-in-one defy beginners guide' which i find very useful for everybody, so i think that should be involved too. and thanks for looking after the defy section, it did get quite messy over the last few weeks, months.
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Hmm...
What should we do?
I don't know?
Why do they post a que in dev section!
Maybe put up azrionach's(from xdatv) video about noobs on 1st page?
All I want is Dev Section to be clean
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Kayant said:
Best thing for now is to report the thread for maintance/moving that's what i have been doing with the dev section
Thanks again Step666 for cleaning up the ones i reported...... +1 on the rollup thread thread it makes things a lot easier for new users as they can find everything in one thread.
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I do nearly every day!!
Yesterday i reported 3 maybe!
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Is it possible to have two xda members governing one same thread? It would be best to keep a thread up to date if two people where allowed to edit the OP. Could it be possible?
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crakeron said:
Seems good. I myself have two popular guides in the general section you can't have missed (soft-sim unlock and double boot). How will the roll-up thread work exactly?
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It would list all the current guides that are to be found in our Defy forums at the moment
Voted for the roll-up thread. What suggestions could we have about it? Like, which threads should be included?
I hate it when someone quotes the OP's post after 20-30 pages only to ask a question whose answer was in the previously 20-30 unread pages. Also, when someone quotes a really LONG post only to add a short answer/joke/offtopic question or a smiley and an encouragement.
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How will the roll-up thread work exactly?
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Similar to the one I linked-to, with a series of links to useful guides etc - except I'd probably go a step further and include a short description of what each thread contained.
There'd be one in this section and one in the Dev section.
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but have to ask for something: to always keep that one stickied thread up-to-date, otherwise it has no sense.
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I agree.
And that's where I'd need your help - whilst I own a Defy my primary handset now is my Galaxy Nexus, so I'm just not as clued up on things here as the rest of you.
So whilst I'd do my best to keep it updated, if there was a thread you felt was missing from the roll-up, then you'd be best to PM me and I could add it.
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Hmm...
What should we do?
I don't know?
Why do they post a que in dev section!
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Unfortunately, there's no way to force people to pay attention/follow the rules/behave like vaguely-competent individuals.
So all we can do is react to people who have posted in the wrong section.
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Is it possible to have two xda members governing one same thread? It would be best to keep a thread up to date if two people where allowed to edit the OP. Could it be possible?
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No, unfortunately the forum software doesn't allow for that.
I guess an alternative would be to have the 'roll-up' lists in the Defy Wiki where anyone can edit them and I would just have a link to them from the one sticky in each section.
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It would list all the current guides that are to be found in our Defy forums at the moment
Voted for the roll-up thread. What suggestions could we have about it? Like, which threads should be included?
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Yeah, sure - that's exactly the sort of feedback that I'd want/need.
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I hate it when someone quotes the OP's post after 20-30 pages only to ask a question whose answer was in the previously 20-30 unread pages. Also, when someone quotes a really LONG post only to add a short answer/joke/offtopic question or a smiley and an encouragement.
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Report them.
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Report them.
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Report them for what?
What category?
Haha now ull get more reports from me!!!
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Report them for what?
What category?
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Doesn't really matter.
You can PM me directly if you prefer.
The important thing is if you see something wrong, you bring it to my attention...
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Haha now ull get more reports from me!!!
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Bring it on!
Seriously though, I really appreciate the work you all do reporting threads.
I couldn't do what I need to without all your help.
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Doesn't really matter.
You can PM me directly if you prefer.
The important thing is if you see something wrong, you bring it to my attention...
Bring it on!
Seriously though, I really appreciate the work you all do reporting threads.
I couldn't do what I need to without all your help.
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Ohk... just wanna keep defy forum clean! Thats all...
Bless u!
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Seems like the general section is filled with too many questions which should be in the Q & A and topics about accessories which also has its own section. Most the other sections on XDA I have been a part of had been stricter on this and moved a lot of threads to the appropriate sections which helped clean up the clutter.
The forum clean up helps users who want to avoid these topics and also users who want to do a search within the appropriate area. Its better for everyone.
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Agreed
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Seems like the general section is filled with too many questions which should be in the Q & A and topics about accessories which also has its own section. Most the other sections on XDA I have been a part of had been stricter on this and moved a lot of threads to the appropriate sections which helped clean up the clutter.
The forum clean up helps users who want to avoid these topics and also users who want to do a search within the appropriate area. Its better for everyone.
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If you want to avoid certain discussions...then don't click on them just to complain as you have. While you may feel this forum is cluttered some as opposed to the developer forums...others like myself don't. This isn't a place where people have to be a hard ass...it's the general section...not the developers section...and calling out the mods to move or merge topics just because you don't happen to like them is what gives this forum a bad reputation...
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If you want to avoid certain discussions...then don't click on them just to complain as you have. While you may feel this forum is cluttered some as opposed to the developer forums...others like myself don't. This isn't a place where people have to be a hard ass...it's the general section...not the developers section...and calling out the mods to move or merge topics just because you don't happen to like them is what gives this forum a bad reputation...
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Hows it give the forum a bad reputation? Things like this drive others away and make it harder to navigate and do searches. I dont click on stuff I dont want to read. Every other XDA forum I have been a part of has been really good on putting things in the right sections or mods helped clean them up by moving them to the appropiate section. Why should this phones forum be so different? If your arguement was valid there wouldnt be sub sections for these topics.
Use the report option. If a thread is in the wrong section or a duplicate thread report that a mod close it or move it.
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What he ^^^^^^ said, since the Moderation team can not be all over, report button will bring us to the attention required. Thank you.
Took me all day to post a home screen, what I missed from an iPhone, post a picture, post my battery stats, post a benchmark....... BRB, have to post a doodle now.
Seriously.
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Forum clean up?
Seems like the general section is filled with too many questions
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one more question, I probably live hundreds of miles away from you, where can I buy a note 2.
Really.
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Just saying it would be awesome to see someone take advantage of this huge screen and making it more efficient in going back and forth opening new apps and such in multiwindow or maybe even a hole new UI could help make this possible so that it's easier to manage and switch thru the open windows?
Am I the only one who thinks so or have I gone bananas?
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Regardless of the sanity of your request, this is not the place for it... and as such be prepared to have this moved/removed by a mod, of course not till several other people come in here to berate you.
In the future use the General or Q&A section for non-actual-development related threads.
Please move this thread!
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Whatever happened to needing a minimum of 10 posts before you could post in a dev section?
daveid said:
Regardless of the sanity of your request, this is not the place for it... and as such be prepared to have this moved/removed by a mod, of course not till several other people come in here to berate you.
In the future use the General or Q&A section for non-actual-development related threads.
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I think this is a perfectly legitimate place for his post. This is a Q&A section, he has several concerns about the GN2 and as a result he is asking whether he has gone bananas...
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I think this is a perfectly legitimate place for his post. This is a Q&A section, he has several concerns about the GN2 and as a result he is asking whether he has gone bananas...
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He posted it in the dev section
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He posted it in the dev section
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Sorry. My bad.
over 60 pages of great discussions and useful information.. and now its been deleted?
What happened Mods?
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over 60 pages of great discussions and useful information.. and now its been deleted?
What happened Mods?
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Surely not ?
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Pat. said:
Surely not ?
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Looks like it's been deleted.
Forum search engine points to the same error message when looking for No7102 missing thread.
And I posted a few messages in that thread... my post count has been decreased since it disappeared ...
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WTF, my question also? Why would it get deleted? Mods - explain!
I thought maybe a new N7102 group got started, but don't see it.
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It was deleted in error. In future can you report things like this via PM to moderators please as we (Samsung International Phone's Moderation Team) have only 4 active members to cover the hole of none US Samsung phones so we don't tend to browse specific forums for questions aimed at moderators.
Also I do not particularly like the tone of some of the posts here, it comes across very demanding like "Mods, you explain this NAOOO!!!". I think you'll find one of the forum rules is never post in a demanding self-entitled manner.
Lastly, questions go in the Q&A forum.
Thread closed.
I feel that this is a stupid question but I registered yesterday and now I looking for the threads I posted in. Well there is only one actually as I remembered where was the one thread I opened. I thought I would be automatically subscribed to the threads I open/post in.
Is there a way to see where I posted ?
Thanks
Yeah just look in ur profile and look at posts. That should do it. That was while using app. Go up to ur control panel and click on subscribed threads. Youll see ur posts on different threads .
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Rehv said:
Yeah just look in ur profile and look at posts. That should do it. That was while using app. Go up to ur control panel and click on subscribed threads. Youll see ur posts on different threads .
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Thanks Rehv for the quick reply but I looked in my profile before posting and all I could see was statistics about my posts but no way to see them...
I found the subscribed thread in the control panel though but I didn't subscribe to the thread I won't see it...
What am I missing here ?
at pc browser: click at Your user name and You should get that
i'm not using app
stopa46 thanks a lot !! I would never have thought to look for my posts this way! Why not simply put an option in the control panel to see all written posts ? Anyway thanks again
You welcome m8, that might be usefull for other new members aswell. Cheers
Awesome! I didnt even know that one. Haha. Great shortcut. Thanks
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Rehv said:
Yeah just look in ur profile and look at posts. That should do it. That was while using app. Go up to ur control panel and click on subscribed threads. Youll see ur posts on different threads .
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Ur welcome. Ive lost some threads as well but now I c how to find them . Have a gud day.
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at pc browser: click at Your user name and You should get that
i'm not using app
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Finally, Thank you so much stopa46, worked just fine. now off to play.
Please keep the good work up. You all do an amazing job on explanations.
Will always come here for advice and new goodies!
I also struggled with this, and had to find this thread to figure it out. I would have expected to find that stuff in the settings(gear) area, would never have thought to click my own username after failing to find it in the settings area Thanks for your help!
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I feel that this is a stupid question but I registered yesterday and now I looking for the threads I posted in. Well there is only one actually as I remembered where was the one thread I opened. I thought I would be automatically subscribed to the threads I open/post in.
Is there a way to see where I posted ?
Thanks
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I had also dificulties to find it. Maybe XDADevelopers should take a look at stackoverflow how things are done in a decent and intuitive way.