At present XDA has no rules governing signatures except where the are offensive but I personally feel some signatures are just far too long/tall. I have a 1600 x 900 resolution monitor and have just seen a post where the post was only two lines but the signature then took up nearly all of the rest of the monitors vertical space. I know I can hide signatures when I am viewing the forum but I'd rather not since some contain useful links such as to other roms or kernels I may want to try.
Would some mild restrictions be asking to much?
carbonize said:
At present XDA has no rules governing signatures except where the are offensive but I personally feel some signatures are just far too long/tall. I have a 1600 x 900 resolution monitor and have just seen a post where the post was only two lines but the signature then took up nearly all of the rest of the monitors vertical space. I know I can hide signatures when I am viewing the forum but I'd rather not since some contain useful links such as to other roms or kernels I may want to try.
Would some mild restrictions be asking to much?
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We already have restrictions of 1000 characters, of which 500 can be nonBB chars. If you see a specific one that you would like to report, feel free to click on the little triangle in the upper right hand corner of the post and a mod will look into it. Also, there are other rules such as promoting other sites, or selling stuff are not allowed.
If I can jump in here for a second, there is an excellent option regarding signatures here on the Forum.
Use the Unofficial XDA Toolbar. It's a browser plugin that allows you to set all images in posts to a maximum size, toggle all signatures on or off, and jump back to the top of a page. Please throw a 'thanks' to FSM 'Archer' when you see him around, as this is his work.
The toolbar also allows you to use a toggle setting, to hide individual obscene/oversized signatures on a user-by-user basis, so you don't have to hide them all - just the annoying ones.
TBH this has improved my XDA experience 1000-fold. Just the 'jump to top' button alone is worth having. If you use XDA a lot and your browser doesn't support it, it's worth a browser upgrade. Believe me
Hope this helps you out!
If you see a huuuge sig then pm a mod and we will consider asking the person to resize it.
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
Yeah I've already reported the one in question.
I'm glad someone brought this up because I have seen some ridiculous signatures myself.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA
Talking about ridiculously long signatures... I will change this
Edit. Have made it shorter than usual... 6 phones less
carbonize said:
At present XDA has no rules governing signatures except where the are offensive but I personally feel some signatures are just far too long/tall. I have a 1600 x 900 resolution monitor and have just seen a post where the post was only two lines but the signature then took up nearly all of the rest of the monitors vertical space. I know I can hide signatures when I am viewing the forum but I'd rather not since some contain useful links such as to other roms or kernels I may want to try.
Would some mild restrictions be asking to much?
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I get what you mean, but as a users signature is limited to 1000 characters.
HOWEVER if they have a really big image, then i agree with you, as that is annoying having to scroll down so much just to see the next post. So i think they should be restricted to a certain image size in there sig.
So i totally agree with you
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Hi, First let me say that I love this site and have learned massive amounts of stuff by reading and searching and the occasional question.
I have noticed lately that the number of people who have been members for 2 weeks and have 1700 posts is rapidly increasing. I also see a lot more posts like:
"yeah I think my bro had a progam like that once whre you had to move thing diffrnt LOL maybe LOL "
and
"yeah that would be so cool if someone could do that, too bad i don't know how to program LOL "
and surely a lot more posts getting jacked by flame-wars and outright trolls. I know that this is somewhat inevitable when a site like XDA offers so much. IT will get hugely popular and sooner or later the AOL'ers arrive and turn it to ****e. I really, really hope that doesn't happen to my favourite site...but it kind of feels like it's starting to go that way....is there anything to be done? Some kind of flag on people who get senior member status within 6 hours of joining? Some kind of age-verification system before allowing new members? Some kind of post-filtering algorithm that auto deletes any post with more than 5 smiley's and two LOL's in it??
Seriously though, maybe I'm being a jerk, but does anyone else notice this lately? Any thoughts?
Hello mlalahoi.
As you can see by the 'Join Date' on the top right of my post I have been here a while.
Yes this forum used to be different but it also used to be a lot smaller.
But word of unofficial WM upgrades, iPhone themes and free unlockers travels fast.
Combined with the growth in popularity of HTC it self and WM OS in general the number of users on this site has increased significantly in the past 1.5 years or so.
The administration of this site strives to keep it as free and accessible as it always was so instead of limiting user registration they increased the number of moderators to cope with the onslaught of junk posts that inevitably accompanies the increase in user base.
But we still can't catch every post, specially in general forums where there can be as many as 3 pages of new threads per day.
This is where you and other users who care about this site come in. In the top right corner of every post there is a '!' button.
You can use it to report posts that are offensive, wrong or plain SPAM. The moderators will get a notification with a link to the post and will take appropriate action.
Lets all keep the forum clean together!
thats a good point to be raised. one has to flip so many pages just to view some serious and productive comments.
help
why is it that i try to download but get an attachment.htm file that doesnt open but my desktop or where eve i save it
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why is it that i try to download but get an attachment.htm file that doesnt open but my desktop or where eve i save it
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Probably (a) you're either using a download manager (don't) or using 'save as' (don't) or (b) you've posted this question in the wrong thread by the way (i.e. it should have its own thread I think).
Disable any download managers. Free Download Manager is one that I use and makes this mistake on attachments if I let it.
Sorry for the semi-sarcasm - wasn't a genuine flame mate. Enjoy the attachments, very important part of the site.
(Oh, look - my posts just went up by one!! )
Hi mlalahoi i do agree i joind when i first got my hermesthanks to my teachcher showing me the wounders of XDA-Dev and I essecialy agree with the silly posts that flood xda....
XDA statuses are not something to flash off (even though i carnt wait to upgrade )
What i dont agree with is this:
mlalahoi said:
Some kind of age-verification system before allowing new members?
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Im not as old as others on this website but XDA has inspired me to try C+ programming everything...
I can agree that it is probibly the young population that causing the flood... but not all of us are alike!
Couldn't agree more with this thread. I am among those who might soon attract derision from some of you true 'senior' members. I recently joined and I am happy to say that all but 4 of my posts have been helping other members. Of the 4, 2 were questions and 2 were comments. But I would hardly say I am even close to being senior in my knowledge, yet here I am getting awfully close on post count alone.
But since I have joined and taken an active interest in the titan pages where a lot of work is going on at the moment, I have seen at least 10 ppl become senior members by asking dumb questions and making completely erroneous advice that in some cases could almost brick a device - all in name of their beloved post count.
For an interested novice (but definitely not a noob) like myself I would welcome a ranking system whereby you could see the seniority of a poster not by their post count but by their reputation for actually helping others or doing useful development.
At ppcgeeks they have a system whereby you can vote for ('rep') a post or poster to indicate if it was useful or just drivel. This way you have a more democratic system than just relying on the poor overworked moderators to do the filtering. These 'rep' votes increase your reputation as a useful poster.
It's very unlikely this system could be abused because you can't 'rep' yourself. This would really weed out the trolls.
Rank a post, Rank a poster
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. . . I would welcome a ranking system whereby you could see the seniority of a poster not by their post count but by their reputation for actually helping others or doing useful development.
At ppcgeeks they have a system whereby you can vote for ('rep') a post or poster to indicate if it was useful or just drivel. This way you have a more democratic system than just relying on the poor overworked moderators to do the filtering. These 'rep' votes increase your reputation as a useful poster.
It's very unlikely this system could be abused because you can't 'rep' yourself. This would really weed out the trolls.
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This seems like a great idea! I wonder if this forum's software has this feature available . . . ?
Edit: I just checked out the ppcgeeks forums - another nice feature is Multiquote - really slick way to respond to 2 or more posts at once, rather than having to cut and paste like here.
PLEASE put a limit (# of characters, # of lines - whatever!) on signatures, and while you're at it, limit the size of images embedded in signatures.
Some (many) posts are oneliners, followed by 20 lines of signature accompanied by some huge animated GIF.
Cheers!
/Mats
There is already a limit for signatures
And everybody is free to use it at their own discretion
Of course! there is... and I feel fine cause everybody is interested on fill it with Information about their device and current OS it helps to void unnecesarry posts asking whats your device?... are u unlocked?... wich Rom are you using? and some crap that wast space here...
My signature exceed the limit thats why I insert an image and a link to an external resource to my Job...
Think about it man.... BTW is this thread necessary? MODS hehehe
See ya!
ZilverZurfarn said:
PLEASE put a limit (# of characters, # of lines - whatever!) on signatures, and while you're at it, limit the size of images embedded in signatures.
Some (many) posts are oneliners, followed by 20 lines of signature accompanied by some huge animated GIF.
Cheers!
/Mats
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Examples please !!!!!!!.....................which signatures are particularly offensive to you. ( obnoxious to the point that it is necessary to start a new thread about it ) or are we just mimicking the current climate over at ppcgeeks, where the animated sigs were really getting out of hand.
I vote for a contest for the most obnoxious signature. It has to be one that already exists, no making up sigs for the contest.
Just an observation - Not trying to be obnoxious. But one line of message and 10 lines of signature looks silly, regardless of how informative the sig may be.
When we're at the subject of huge animated gifs, there's one Mikey1022 who I think wins the competition hands down.
If you find this subject uncalled for, please feel free to delete this thread.
/Mats
http://keyboardcowboy.ca/mirror/linkinpark/ It's an archive of the Linkin park forums from ~2002, Arcsim's sig wins the contest for sure (the entire book of genesis).
Dave
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
http://keyboardcowboy.ca/mirror/linkinpark/ It's an archive of the Linkin park forums from ~2002, Arcsim's sig wins the contest for sure (the entire book of genesis).
Dave
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Now that is an excesssive signature.
Good shout on silly sizes of signature but my pet peeve is people quoting a MASSIVE first post on a thread and just adding "Really?" or "How does this work?" or something..
Am i included?
Most people with big sigs are contributers and already there is a limit
Just checked Arcsim's oh that would do my head in
DaveTheTytnIIGuy said:
http://keyboardcowboy.ca/mirror/linkinpark/ It's an archive of the Linkin park forums from ~2002, Arcsim's sig wins the contest for sure (the entire book of genesis).
Dave
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i cried my eye sockets out hahhahhahha
and for those big signatures..i agree with ZilverZurfarn...there really are too big signatures out there.....
denco....you wanted an example?....look for the 2. post in this thread orb wrote 2 lines and his signature is surely about 20...
but what the hell...they don't bother me....
heheheh...the whole genesis ehhehehehe
Are animated gifs allowed in sig? I tried to load one and it wouldn't let me saying animated gifs were not allowed. But I have seen others with them. They are senior members. Same category as me.
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Are animated gifs allowed in sig? I tried to load one and it wouldn't let me saying animated gifs were not allowed. But I have seen others with them. They are senior members. Same category as me.
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Yup they are allowed, but they are not supposed to be uploaded attachment. If you us a image hosting service you can hotlink to the animated image and that's how everyone has one.
Grassy ass!
orb3000 said:
There is already a limit for signatures
And everybody is free to use it at their own discretion
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I have only seen a few users that had 3 sig pics and also would take up half a page... Not many folks do it tho...
cav sioyea
Think LP ones is crazy. Idiot.
I haven't had this problem until recently. Has something changed? But I find it really annoying and discourages me from answering queries.
The problem I have is the way XDA now combines recent posts - even when totally different subject matter. i.e. if I answer 2 questions or make comments in 2 areas one after the other in a close time frame, XDA combines those posts into one post. This is really annoying.
As a reader of the posts it is also so very hard to follow. Two or three responses in the one post...
So just now I did not bother responding to some quires. Well actually I did try, it combined them, it made no sense, so I deleted all but the first. Obviously not the desired result of this change. (and I've now deleted a couple more that made no sense at all). Frustrating!!!!!!!!
In my opinion not a good idea at all
Do you mean the double post remover?
I don't understand your issue, from the description... It essentially does what multi quote does
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Do you mean the double post remover?
I don't understand your issue, from the description... It essentially does what multi quote does
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An example
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19190386&postcount=34
I hit the QUOTE button and this is what I get. Didn't used to happen thus way
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I haven't had this problem until recently. Has something changed? But I find it really annoying and discourages me from answering queries.
The problem I have is the way XDA now combines recent posts - even when totally different subject matter. i.e. if I answer 2 questions or make comments in 2 areas one after the other in a close time frame, XDA combines those posts into one post. This is really annoying.
As a reader of the posts it is also so very hard to follow. Two or three responses in the one post...
So just now I did not bother responding to some quires. Well actually I did try, it combined them, it made no sense, so I deleted all but the first. Obviously not the desired result of this change. (and I've now deleted a couple more that made no sense at all). Frustrating!!!!!!!!
In my opinion not a good idea at all
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Testing it here
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No, for some reason doesn't happen on this one. But my previous example it did/does.
But I've posted over 100 times and it has only just started doing it
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Testing it here
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No, for some reason doesn't happen on this one. But my previous example it did/does.
But I've posted over 100 times and it has only just started doing it
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Yes, feature was added recently to try cut down on double posting.
It doesn't apply when you are the OP of a thread.
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Yes, feature was added recently to try cut down on double posting.
It doesn't apply when you are the OP of a thread.
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Please register my dissatisfaction with this change. It is most annoying for users and readers.
Perhaps make it an option or opt out.
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Perhaps make it an option or opt out.
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That's like saying: "Please remove that feature". If they allowed users to have a choice, then most would "opt out" and the feature would seem as if it doesn't exist. This would allow those users to double (or more) post and just spam the thread.
It doesn't do that when you use the android app
Sent from my Galaxy S II (i777)
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That's like saying: "Please remove that feature". If they allowed users to have a choice, then most would "opt out" and the feature would seem as if it doesn't exist. This would allow those users to double (or more) post and just spam the thread.
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Maybe so, but this is much worse
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Maybe so, but this is much worse
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Not if they are trying to limit spam (which they are).
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Not if they are trying to limit spam (which they are).
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I don't see much evidence of spam, show me an example of spam that would make this so necessary
Is there enough spam to impose this dumb idea on us all. I get on for a few minutes at a time and may answer a few questions etc. Does that make me a spammer. I think not, but this is imposed on me anyway
A bit heavy handed I think.
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Not if they are trying to limit spam (which they are).
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This prevents <10 post user spam.
But, and this is the key thing, there's no actual reason for EVERYTHING to be in separate posts.
The only justification for wanting this to be different is if you are trying to increase your postcount, whether by spamming, or wanting to just get it higher...
It prevents a user constantly bumping a thread as well.
There's nobody stopping you answering a few questions. But it will automatically combine the posts, a bit like multi-quote does (which is the preferred way to answer several questions).
This is a standard feature used on a wide range of forums including vbulletin.org. By merging together sequential posts from a user, it reduces resource usage, as there's less individual posts needing loaded.
^what he said......
I'm sorry but I just don't see the issue here.
If you are responding to multiple posts in a thread, use multi quote. Problem solved.
Is there enough spam to warrant this?
Yes. There is enough spam to warrant much more stringent methods of preventing it imo.
This is a simple feature which greatly increases the readability of a thread.
Sent from my HD2. Still kicking the arse out of all your phones...
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I don't see much evidence of spam, show me an example of spam that would make this so necessary
Is there enough spam to impose this dumb idea on us all. I get on for a few minutes at a time and may answer a few questions etc. Does that make me a spammer. I think not, but this is imposed on me anyway
A bit heavy handed I think.
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Exactly what they said (below). Using multiquote is not hard (I did it in this post ). If you want to answer multiple questions, do it in one post (using multiquote). It is unnecessary to make 2 (or more) different posts to answer 2 (or more) different questions when there is a way to do it in 1 post.
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This prevents <10 post user spam.
But, and this is the key thing, there's no actual reason for EVERYTHING to be in separate posts.
The only justification for wanting this to be different is if you are trying to increase your postcount, whether by spamming, or wanting to just get it higher...
It prevents a user constantly bumping a thread as well.
There's nobody stopping you answering a few questions. But it will automatically combine the posts, a bit like multi-quote does (which is the preferred way to answer several questions).
This is a standard feature used on a wide range of forums including vbulletin.org. By merging together sequential posts from a user, it reduces resource usage, as there's less individual posts needing loaded.
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conantroutman said:
^what he said......
I'm sorry but I just don't see the issue here.
If you are responding to multiple posts in a thread, use multi quote. Problem solved.
Is there enough spam to warrant this?
Yes. There is enough spam to warrant much more stringent methods of preventing it imo.
This is a simple feature which greatly increases the readability of a thread.
Sent from my HD2. Still kicking the arse out of all your phones...
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conantroutman said:
^what he said......
I'm sorry but I just don't see the issue here.
If you are responding to multiple posts in a thread, use multi quote. Problem solved.
Is there enough spam to warrant this?
Yes. There is enough spam to warrant much more stringent methods of preventing it imo.
This is a simple feature which greatly increases the readability of a thread.
Sent from my HD2. Still kicking the arse out of all your phones...
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I beg to differ, it reduces the readability of the thread enormously and is really annoying. That's why I'm raising it.
Please show me the evidence of spamming that you mention. I have not seen it myself.
Surely if a person was spamming a moderator could remove it and warn the spammer. That's what I've seen on other discussions and boards that I have run.
It would save this heavy handed autocratic approach - punishing us all.
lol...
that's all I have
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I beg to differ, it reduces the readability of the thread enormously and is really annoying. That's why I'm raising it.
Please show me the evidence of spamming that you mention. I have not seen it myself.
Surely if a person was spamming a moderator could remove it and warn the spammer. That's what I've seen on other discussions and boards that I have run.
It would save this heavy handed autocratic approach - punishing us all.
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Spam runs deep in the subforum I'm in and I don't see any problem with the new feature .
In fact I like it
Sent from my GT-S5830 using XDA App
i dont get why would you like spam
Any chance we can have a limit on the size of sigs/banners allowed?
Some of the banners are huge now and really there is no need for it.
We already have a limit of 1000 chars, 500 nonBB code. Individual sigs could be reported using the little triangle button in the upper right corner of each post, but I don't think you will get much results with that as long as the sigs are not offensive in nature or overtly advertising.
If the sig in question is overly large, as in taking up half a page, or has flashing lights or something obnoxious, report the post. mods will remove the offending material. Sigs are not meant to distract people from the threads.
Sometimes you see these humongous signatures which fills up your screen and makes you have to scroll down to read the next post.This is not only annoying,but also wastes your bandwidth sometimes as they have multiple number of images.I made this thread to provide an easy way for all of you to report them.
I hope this thread will gain official recognition by xda and will help reduce the number of humongous sigs that we see nowadays
P.S.Thread was a.cid's idea,I just made it.
You mean like that one? ^^^^^^^^^
Prawesome said:
Sometimes you see these humongous signatures which fills up your screen and makes you have to scroll down to read the next post.This is not only annoying,but also wastes your bandwidth sometimes as they have multiple number of images.I made this thread to provide an easy way for all of you to report them.
I hope this thread will gain official recognition by xda and will help reduce the number of humongous sigs that we see nowadays
P.S.Thread was a.cid's idea,I just made it.
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tinky1 said:
You mean like that one? ^^^^^^^^^
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Couldn't have seen that one coming
I think it would probably be more appropriate to click on the report button when encountering such a signature. You could set examples by posting your sig code here: Share Your Sig Code Please
You could also encourage people to use [floatleft] [/floatleft] and [floatright] [/floatright] in their sigs to compress them a bit by better utilizing the width of the screen instead of 'stacking' signature elements.
mf2112 said:
Couldn't have seen that one coming
I think it would probably be more appropriate to click on the report button when encountering such a signature.
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There's no reason this thread wouldn't be allowed to be here, right?
Obviously the only downside would be incase a mentioned user notices it and doesn't like it, but it's the same with the spam users thread.
Just my 2 cents xD
On-topic - I generally won't notice many with huge sigs due to mainly using the app, but I'll try my best to remember this thread when relevant
''Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver''
KidCarter93 said:
There's no reason this thread wouldn't be allowed to be here, right?
Obviously the only downside would be incase a mentioned user notices it and doesn't like it, but it's the same with the spam users thread.
Just my 2 cents xD
On-topic - I generally won't notice many with huge sigs due to mainly using the app, but I'll try my best to remember this thread when relevant
''Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver''
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Not up to me as it isn't my forum.
I know what you mean though, less people using the website now and more using the app.
While I like the sentiments behind this thread, perhaps rather than a 'name and shame' style list (at this stage), just reporting those users with massive, oversized, ridiculous signatures would be best :highfive:
That way we can action them quickly and directly :good:
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