I don't have access to Signature settings and a couple other things, and I have completed my 10 posts. Can someone help me?
Can I also be verified by a moderator so this 5 minute limit can be disabled?
icomputerz said:
I don't have access to Signature settings and a couple other things, and I have completed my 10 posts. Can someone help me?
Can I also be verified by a moderator so this 5 minute limit can be disabled?
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It can take a few hours before the server changes your account, if its been longer than that contact a mod
The unlock is not instantaneous - this is done to prevent spammers from making 10 quick posts and then going to town.
Apologies for the delay - be patient, you will be unlocked soon.
Ok, thank you - I am unlocked. So glad to be a member of XDA
The 5 minute thing will end once you've reached a certain number of posts as will as the CAPTCHA, image block, and other new member restrictions.
10 posts.
Hi, My name is Sean, Have actually been using XDA for a few years now. Never really had an urge or need to post before. I follow directions well. So I'm starting to see situations and threads that I want to post in/about, but cant. Guess I feel like I have things to share now...? Anyways. Here is one of ten, just saying hello. Hello.
i have completed 10 posts. So i am waiting for my turn now! Thanks a lot!
Mine was instant but from what I hear it can take up to a week. Just give it time and it will unlock for you.
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Yea I don't like this at all. Been following for a year +, but just recently decided to join and post and it's taking awhile to get to 10 posts. Oh well.
Same here. Ive been lurking and downloading and installing/playing with roms on my galaxy tab 2 for a couple months now and just now finally registered.
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Closed as it's attracting nothing but pointless 1/10 posts.....
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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.
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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 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?
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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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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
Really Really wish that XDA would lock everyday peeps from posting in ROM threads.
No matter how many times it is said, seems most do not follow directions then ask why, or ask if they do need to follow directions, or ask why some BS app like netflicks wont work with a different carrier on new ROM.
250 pages of posts and 248 are spam and crap from peeps that evidently should nopt be messing with their phones in the first place.
Sigh ok I feel better now....
What is the point in stopping the users of ROMs from posting about them?
I agree with the above posting, if you deny people from posting their questions, what they learned, what oddity they discovered in a new rom.......... well then, you stymie progress. And, after all isn't THAT what these forums are about? improving our experience and improving our learning ?
If you really look at ROM threads these day there is very little good information or even helpfull information being posted by the masses.
Create a spam thread for the ROM in general, and GOOD information can be transfered to the actual ROM thread in the Dev section.
Everyone is told to search and read first, and I have spent the last few years doing that with out having the need to repost questions that have already been posted. But I will admit that lately with as much growth as this sight has had, Threads are being crapped up so bad it makes it hard to do so, leading to a vicious circle.
Seriously in one ROM thread alone you have 280+ pages now in a fairly new thread, and 270 of the pages are junk posts.
and now how can i download new updates to americandroid rom???
Posting, not downloading.
So we know this is a problem, and we're willing to go to great lengths to protect the development parts of the site as per the announcement.
It's a tough balance, but we think restricting new replies for those with under 10 posts, and new threads for those with under 50 posts will help a lot.
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So we know this is a problem, and we're willing to go to great lengths to protect the development parts of the site as per the announcement.
It's a tough balance, but we think restricting new replies for those with under 10 posts, and new threads for those with under 50 posts will help a lot.
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That could work. It really doesn't take long to post 50 times.
There has been a severe surge in noob activity and the search function has lost all use as they do not use it.
We get 10000000000000 threads all about the same problem.
There must be a way of getting them in control.
The worst is noobs in dev threads as they don't know **** and there for fill dev threads with utter spam and trash.
Help us obiwan kenobi your our only hope.
What if we make it so that you can "down-vote" replies, similar to reporting, and when 3-5 people down-vote the same post or user, it removes/hides the post and bans the user from posting in the thread for a period of time, while displaying a message saying so.
¤ you're ¤ our only hope
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What if we make it so that you can "down-vote" replies, similar to reporting, and when 3-5 people down-vote the same post or user, it removes/hides the post and bans the user from posting in the thread for a period of time, while displaying a message saying so.
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Could be abused..
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Could be abused..
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That's why I said 3-5 votes and also banned from posting in that thread for a period of time (ie 15 minutes). If we, the responsible members can't be trusted with something this simple, then there's no hope of fixing this.
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The OP should have used the search also. There is a very similar thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070421
This whole topic is stupid if u don't like peeps posting stuff then don't read stuff or get off this sit. Now I feel better
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Hi,
I just wanted to reedit a comment because a tag was missing and it said that I have to wait 2 minutes before I am allowed to do another posting.
Well, I didn't want to do another posting, I just wanted to edit an already posted comment.
Maybe this could be fixed easily...
Thanks
Rebista
Came here to try to find just the same answer. It's just editing, 2 minutes is too long to wait for something like that!
But I understand what the reasons may be. What amount of post will take this away?
thanks in advance
I would have expected you to be beyond that point now with more than 10 posts, but perhaps there are new restrictions on junior members, which should end at 30 posts when you become members.
mf2112 said:
I would have expected you to be beyond that point now with more than 10 posts, but perhaps there are new restrictions on junior members, which should end at 30 posts when you become members.
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I can confirm that haveing more than 30 posts will get rid of this limitation. I don't have it anymore
Thanks!
ChicaAndroid said:
I can confirm that haveing more than 30 posts will get rid of this limitation. I don't have it anymore
Thanks!
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You will still have a restriction it is just brought down to somthing like 20 sec
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You will still have a restriction it is just brought down to somthing like 20 sec
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Nope. Already tried, is instantly done.
Okay, so free edits come with 30 posts ...
As it just happens this very post now is my 30th post
What an unusual solution. Post in this forum and through the very act of posting everything is taken care of
lol
Just came in here to comment about the very same thing. I can understand limiting the amount of posts new users can make within a given period (helps prevent spam)....but editing a post should be excluded from this limit.
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Okay, so free edits come with 30 posts ...
As it just happens this very post now is my 30th post
What an unusual solution. Post in this forum and through the very act of posting everything is taken care of
lol
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I think it's allright and something you can live with, for 30 posts. They say in their FAQ that limiting posts is the only way to control spammers (well, one of their ways) and chaos.
30 is NOT that much, when I came to this thread I tought I was to find some limit of 100 posts and THAT would be annoying.
If you plan to stay in the community, 30 posts are ok and 2 minutes are bearable. Just MY opinion
woah 30post until edit???
now isnt that like tooo much??
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woah 30post until edit???
now isnt that like tooo much??
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No, there is a 2 minute time limit between post and edit until you reach 30 posts. You can edit before 30 posts, you just have to wait a bit.
Think about what you write before clicking Submit. Use the advanced edit mode and the Preview button. Make sure you have furnished enough information in your post to help people answer your questions.
If you have any other questions, please read this guide.
I don't have any complaining about it ( I'm new junior member) cause its much nicely read and post to the good forum ( some boobs don't read and follow xda's rules)
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I came to this thread via google. Shouldn't this info be in some FAQ?
I have no idea why this faq http://forum.xda-developers.com/faq.php is not linked anywhere for people to go clicky.
Conspiracy theories:
It's almost like they don't want users to find the faq.
They assumed users won't read it anyway.
They are lazy.
/runs for cover.
There's too many restrictions at xda, I mean yea they got a lot of helpful tools, but come on...but whatever...lol
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As a Linux / Android developer I can't answer and help in the developement forum because not enough posts! Do I really have to more stupid posts like this before I can post real?
To post here I had to log in AND use the annoying Image Verification.
Do you really have so much spam to bother real people?
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As a Linux / Android developer I can't answer and help in the developement forum because not enough posts! Do I really have to more stupid posts like this before I can post real?
To post here I had to log in AND use the annoying Image Verification.
Do you really have so much spam to bother real people?
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And even harder to post another message:
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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I hope after the first 10 posts, I can really USE the forum to help others and become help and information.
I read the forum since Sep 2010 (see Join Date), but nearly every post I tried, was blocked!
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And even harder to post another message:
I hope after the first 10 posts, I can really USE the forum to help others and become help and information.
I read the forum since Sep 2010 (see Join Date), but nearly every post I tried, was blocked!
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Yea dd-wrt is a better forum for getting things done. I sent an email to xda and was told if I had asked nicely they would have lifted the 10 post limit but since I didn't he wouldn't. Its like this forum is run by a bunch of teenagers who think their sh*t don't stink....
Sounds like you ladies are mad I joined last night and had ten posts last night. Why are you whining.
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Let's assume you have experience in running a site with over 4 million accounts, and 60.000 daily visitors. Let's say it's a hot topic, like Android.
How much do you think ad companies would give to get their hands on accounts or even ad space?
The 10 post rule is there to prevent spamming and new members asking questions in development threads that are easily answered with one search action. So, the impossibility answering questions in development is the downside of this rule, but it's easily remedied if the question is an "easy one".
We are always looking to make the visit on XDA as pleasant as possible, however, the size of the forum doesn't always allow it, sadly.
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Sounds like you ladies are mad I joined last night and had ten posts last night. Why are you whining.
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Getting your post count up, eh. Some are here for more than ego
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Getting your post count up, eh. Some are here for more than ego
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Lol oh I'm sorry what is it you bring to the table good sir aside from complaining. I got my 10 in a night no point in crying over something so simple.
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Do you really have so much spam to bother real people?
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Yes.
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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...
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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...
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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
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