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Why are half of the threads in the general forum now locked?

Because they are either duplicates, misplaced or just complete rubbish. I'm sure some of them are also all three of the previous options.
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LOL. Just wondering. All of a sudden about half of the posts on page 1 and 2 were locked and they didn't appear to be from the video spammer!!

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[Q] New member posting

I have received a surprising number of PMs in response to my App thread [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=973921] from newbies who say they are PMing because they are unable to reply to threads. One even said he couldn't post till he had 10 posts (how the heck could he get 10 posts if he can't post?). I thought newbies couldn't post links for a certain period or number of posts... but I have slept since then and the site has changed some.
What gives? I read the FAQ and all I found was that in most forums you have to be a registered member to reply or post new topics. Are these newbies just mistaken about the rules, if so is there some way to better explain the posting rules?
Pop45398 said:
I have received a surprising number of PMs in response to my App thread [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=973921] from newbies who say they are PMing because they are unable to reply to threads. One even said he couldn't post till he had 10 posts (how the heck could he get 10 posts if he can't post?). I thought newbies couldn't post links for a certain period or number of posts... but I have slept since then and the site has changed some.
What gives? I read the FAQ and all I found was that in most forums you have to be a registered member to reply or post new topics. Are these newbies just mistaken about the rules, if so is there some way to better explain the posting rules?
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We have an informative notice to users when they try to do this.
New users (<10 posts) can't post in development areas. What you could do, is make a "support" thread outwith development. The problem was that we were getting thousands of pointless posts from people in development areas, causing endless trouble in moving them and dealing with the flaming that continued...
Once they have 10 posts outwith development areas, they can post in dev forums within 1 hour of that time. A support thread outwith that section, with a prominant link in the first post might help, and it's the method I will be using myself.
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Thanks, that certainly explains it... great suggestion.
pulser_g2 said:
We have an informative notice to users when they try to do this.
New users (<10 posts) can't post in development areas. What you could do, is make a "support" thread outwith development. The problem was that we were getting thousands of pointless posts from people in development areas, causing endless trouble in moving them and dealing with the flaming that continued...
Once they have 10 posts outwith development areas, they can post in dev forums within 1 hour of that time. A support thread outwith that section, with a prominant link in the first post might help, and it's the method I will be using myself.
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Thanks for the explantion, though it's really annoying, never mind counting this one XD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14995900#post14995900
it's frustrated...
Thx, logical explanation
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Must follow the rules, thank you.
I have the same issue and found out about the 10 posts rule, yet something confused me, a "new member" (Labeled as Junior Member" was able to post in the development area for a Rom thread with only having >5 posts. I saw two posts of his in this thread and he only had total of 4 posts...I tried to post in the same thread and wasn't allowed to because i have fewer than 10 post...oh and his post is only a day or two old.. what gives??
noted ...sir
This stupid rule forces me too post in pointless threads for me. It's just too much hassle to post in threads you really don't care about just to be able to post in your desired development thread.
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SharkDog2 said:
This stupid rule forces me too post in pointless threads for me. It's just too much hassle to post in threads you really don't care about just to be able to post in your desired development thread.
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The recommended way is to post in Q&A instead of development, and I tried it. Obviously no one from the development thread is going to be informed of my post automagically, so I went on contacting the kernel dev, leading to the same situation as the OP, meaning an unwanted PM to a busy dev...
Yeah I don't want to keep bugging deva through pm. Only reason for me to post in other threads.
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I submitted a post misspelled something wanted to edit and It won't let me submit the edited post. Wtf?
tolymatev said:
I submitted a post misspelled something wanted to edit and It won't let me submit the edited post. Wtf?
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Ha that's weird, I could edit my first post to fix a broken link. Can you link to your immutable post?
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Yeah I don't want to keep bugging deva through pm. Only reason for me to post in other threads.
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I perfectly agree with you, sir, and find the present thread particularly handy in that respect. Of course, I would never post anything just for the sake of reaching a post count of 10, but it appears that light conversation about the ins and outs and philosophy of the XDA rules does help towards that goal, isn't it wonderful?
And hooooo didn't I just discover another thoughtful anti-noob restriction ? It appears that, in order to increase my verbia... to increase the quality, grammar and punctuation of posts, and more importantly, to avoid easy mass spamming, XDA requires non-mod-approved users to wait a total of five minutes between two posts. Specifically, the following message appears:
To prevent spam to the forums, new users must wait five minutes between posts. All new user accounts will be verified by moderators before this restriction is removed.
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(HA, yes, I admit that I am just training to use the quote function here, and that the above snippet of text does not bring much to the conversation, but eh, isn't it a positive side effect of the anti-noob-spam rule, that I get to train proper formatting of posts?)
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Ha that's weird, I could edit my first post to fix a broken link. Can you link to your immutable post?
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I'm using the xda app right now. Its not a big deal but its frustrating ...... and guess what guys this should be my 10th post. This f'ed up rule got me counting my posts lol.. I should get unleashed after this right?
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tolymatev said:
I'm using the xda app right now. Its not a big deal but its frustrating ...... and guess what guys this should be my 10th post. This f'ed up rule got me counting my posts lol.. I should get unleashed after this right?
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So it's a limitation of new posters when using the XDA app, probably.
Yes its a limitation....by the way this is my first post.... 1/10
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Congratulations on your first post, komusic.
I shall also note that the 5 minutes between posts limitation makes that a minimum of 50 minutes is necessary for anyone to reach the infamous tenposts milestone after which the golden doors of the dev forums posting will open under our ungrateful greasy little noobish fingers. Hence, this is also a test of patience. We shall consider ourselves monks, in fact. Apprentices.
So can anyone explain why a member with >10 posts can post in the development area? The posts are recent, just yesterday and the day before

What is the deal with threads getting locked?

Roughly 1/3 of the threads here end up getting locked. I've looked through numerous other forums, and this seems to be the only one where this happens. Just curious why.
At first, I thought it was questions being posted to the general forum, but most of the posts here are questions in one form or another, yet only some are locked, often before even a single reply.
Anyone else feel the moderation might be a tad heavy handed?
IBTL...
ChrisDDD said:
Roughly 1/3 of the threads here end up getting locked. I've looked through numerous other forums, and this seems to be the only one where this happens. Just curious why.
At first, I thought it was questions being posted to the general forum, but most of the posts here are questions in one form or another, yet only some are locked, often before even a single reply.
Anyone else feel the moderation might be a tad heavy handed?
IBTL...
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The ones I've noticed are old threads/or where the person didn't search (3 threads right next to each other asking about a GSM lock code...this has been answered numerous rimes..ans now there is also a discussion thread with the answer) I had no problem with the ones I started being locked
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ChrisDDD said:
Roughly 1/3 of the threads here end up getting locked. I've looked through numerous other forums, and this seems to be the only one where this happens. Just curious why.
At first, I thought it was questions being posted to the general forum, but most of the posts here are questions in one form or another, yet only some are locked, often before even a single reply.
Anyone else feel the moderation might be a tad heavy handed?
IBTL...
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Can't wait for this thread to get locked
Every Forum gets threads locked every day for one reason or another
If people stuck to the rules of Posting and tried reading and searching more then less posts would get locked
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1/3rd

That's how far down the stickies run on this page. Just an observation.
Yeah and everything after that is about search being down, requesting a new forum or complaining about the ten post rule...
If you head on over to the right hand side of the screen there is a "scroll bar" which will allow you to reach those pointless threads below the stickies if you so wish.
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Funny part is nobody reads the stickies. Lol They should though.

Mods, please help me understand.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2242284
I'm confused as to why this thread would be closed. It is a general note 2 thread in the note 2 forum.
But this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2134987
Exact same subject remains open and has been.
This is the worst forum I've ever been a part of on XDA.
A thread is no bigger than a post in terms of hard drive space. So it can't be a "taking up too much space"
There are too many wannabe hall monitors complaining over nonsense.
If you don't want to reply to a thread about someone leaving and coming back don't. Other people do. Same for excited people who just got the device.
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Its called rules... look em up somtime
And the second link quite frankly got lucky
One was closed because it was a duplicate thread/post. Users are expected to use search before posting - especially since redundant or duplicate information is covered. It is a rule.
This thread is now closed too.

10 posts limit?

hi,
I am wondering why I don't have write-access to the development board here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002782&page=4342
my account statistics say I have 11 posts. Have you changed something with the 10 posts limit?
thanks!
inspire
inspire1989 said:
hi,
I am wondering why I don't have write-access to the development board here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002782&page=4342
my account statistics say I have 11 posts. Have you changed something with the 10 posts limit?
thanks!
inspire
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If you followerd the first rule of XDA and searched first you would have found one of the myriad other posts where users are simply told to be calm and wait - it sometimes takes a while for the board to update.
Also, as you have clearly gone out of your way to spam the board with fairly pointless posts, especially the ones since 6:07pm (BST) today, I really do hope that your post on the Dev thread is going to be earth-shatteringly important and insightful
hi,
thanks for the info but the 10 posts rule forces one to make some rather spam posts before accessing other forums...and now that I got this number of posts I was a bit frustrated because I really was searching for some posts I could make. you're right, I could have used the search function better. but I wouldn't ask here if I had just some spam for the development board...
inspire
inspire1989 said:
hi,
thanks for the info but the 10 posts rule forces one to make some rather spam posts before accessing other forums...and now that I got this number of posts I was a bit frustrated because I really was searching for some posts I could make. you're right, I could have used the search function better. but I wouldn't ask here if I had just some spam for the development board...
inspire
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The 10 post rule doesn't force you to spam at all. It doesn't force you to do anything.
Everyone who has signed up during the last 2 years has had the exact same limitations as you and the majority of those people didn't feel forced into doing anything. They realised/understood the reasons behind the rule and engaged in the forums without moaning about it or spamming.
Just imagine how much of a mess XDA would be if all members were allowed to post whatever they want wherever they wanted.
I've never understood why the 10 post rule is such a big issue to quite a few users. It took me about a month to get to 10 posts but it didn't matter because the rule didn't bother me. I didn't need to post in a development thread because I always found my answers by searching. Only once I didn't manage to find my answer so, instead of making useless posts, I contacted one of the active helpers on that thread via PM and asked them for help. I got my issue sorted out without the need to make posts of no value.
I didn't actually make my first post in a development thread until around 3 months after sign up (already had hundreds of posts at that point) and that was purely to help someone else.
we have this thread here
Want To Post In Development?
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Alternate to 10 post
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