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Forum clean up?

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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Scythe024 said:
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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Mac11700 said:
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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Scythe024 said:
Forum clean up?
Seems like the general section is filled with too many questions
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Norma Stitz said:
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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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4 Window multiwindow?

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...

mscion said:
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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twolfekc said:
He posted it in the dev section
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Sorry. My bad.

Different Rom sections

What is the big difference between the roms contained in these 2 sections? Sorry for being a noob i just dont understand why there are 2 sections. Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Development

The roms in the original development section are built from source.
More aosp (less touchwiz).
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h9me said:
What is the big difference between the roms contained in these 2 sections? Sorry for being a noob i just dont understand why there are 2 sections. Samsung Galaxy S 4 Android Development and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Original Android Development
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If im not mistaken I believe this exact same question had been asked already.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314609
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abcdefg1234567 said:
If im not mistaken I believe this exact same question had been asked already.
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If im not mistaken I believe you being nonconstructive and this type of behavior is cancerous to forums.
Thanks Android_Monsters for the quick response.

No, I am just kindly stating if you had taken 5 minutes to read through prior posts instead of cluttering the forum with duplicate questions you would have seen the same member who answered your post had answered this question for someone already
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314609
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abcdefg1234567 said:
No, I am just kindly stating if you had taken 5 minutes to read through prior posts instead of cluttering the forum with duplicate questions you would have seen the same member who answered your post had answered this question for someone already
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2314609
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I agree. You can usually find your answer a lot quicker on Google than posting a duplicate thread and hoping someone replies. You also avoid people like abcdefg pointing out the obvious.
Learn to use search. You will be glad you did trust me
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Ooooooorr, you could have read the big ass sticky in each section to see what the differences were
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Or you could just not complain, stop worrying about board clutter, and give an answer to someone who feels the necessity to ask questions that have been asked so many times it makes people want to gouge their eyeballs out with a soldering iron every time they see them. /sarcasm

lordcheeto03 said:
Or you could just not complain, stop worrying about board clutter, and give an answer to someone who feels the necessity to ask questions that have been asked so many times it makes people want to gouge their eyeballs out with a soldering iron every time they see them. /sarcasm
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OrRrrrrr what eflip88 said learn...learn to exert some effort to do xda with respect and read ,think , browse into topics and sub topics.. every question one could think of has proably been asked already...99% of the time.And when you find the answer you'll be proud all on your own...this is why recognized and elite members have become so Mad
Cause noone gets the basic protocol of things on here .Its much like leading a horse to water , but ya cant make the horse drink.
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abcdefg1234567 said:
OrRrrrrr what eflip88 said learn...learn to exert some effort to do xda with respect and read ,think , browse into topics and sub topics.. every question one could think of has proably been asked already...99% of the time.And when you find the answer you'll be proud all on your own...this is why recognized and elite members have become so Mad
Cause noone gets the basic protocol of things on here .Its much like leading a horse to water , but ya cant make the horse drink.
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People get so butt hurt when you call them out for not even trying to search... Apparently, those of us who would like to have fewer garbage topics asking the same thing are the moderators pets or something.. Eflip88 might remember that from a few days ago
No, the reason people get annoyed about a thousand different threads on the same topic couldn't be because it just makes it that much harder for people who actually WANT to do the legwork and use the search bar.. That couldn't be it...
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please port a rom

please port some kind of rom

Please unlock the bootloader, then.

Boot loader doesn't need to be unlocked for a port. According to thecubed that is. :thumbup:
I will be starting to learn how to make Roms tomorrow.
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there's already a good rom based on the stock one in V8 but the developer is on a chinese forum
i will try to convince him to post on xda too

daredevil061305 said:
please port some kind of rom
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Please post in the correct section.
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Please obey forum rules, or learn how to read.

link12245 said:
Please obey forum rules, or learn how to read.
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No need to be mean guys, though it is understandable.
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Jammol said:
No need to be mean guys, though it is understandable.
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I appreciate your optimism and generally good attitude. However, juniors who don't read the rules and have a general disregard for the organization and structure of this community are a detriment. They create extra work for moderators who volunteer their time and make finding information substantially more difficult for users of the site.
If memory serves me well, one of the rules is not to ask for development or etas, though it's been a while since I've peeked at them. Another is certainly posting in the correct forum - which this is not.
I'm going to be blunt, I don't think junior members should be allowed to post in the development sections. Moderators should have the ability to upgrade to a regular member at any time if they see a junior acting accordingly. Likewise, if you post in wrong sections and then abandon the section without reporting your post to a moderator to be closed along with an apology, you should be demoted to a junior for some time. This would prevent a cluttered mess to have to sift through.
It's bad enough we have a severe lack of development due to exclusivity and bootloader issues without the added stress of clutter. I'm not hating on the Op but it sure is disrespectful and I'm sure most will agree with me that it isn't appreciated or beneficial by anyone.
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Jammol said:
Boot loader doesn't need to be unlocked for a port. According to thecubed that is. :thumbup:
I will be starting to learn how to make Roms tomorrow.
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All the best ..hope u come out wit some good clean roms..
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Whoa let's not turn this into a mod hating thread man. I completely agree with the both of you though. It can definitely get frustrating though. I was just saying to the other guy that said the op needs yo learn how to read. I just that part was uncalled for.
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2nd.... noobs, juniors, seniors or moderators we are all on a learning curve and should respect all with patience. Everyone has asked a dumb question, a question that might have already been answered etc. I have and I can only assume all the moderators and or senior members have done the same. gentle reminder rather than coming down on members should be at hand. chill...... this should be an enjoyable situation for all....

scott0 said:
this forum is a disaster and not because of misplaced posts, in fact, just the opposite. we have 12 ****ing mods for this forum, 12.
that's prolly more than peeps posting in here. and they are the ones that **** up the forum moving threads around almost willy nilly.
i ask what peeps are using their qbutton for in the gen forum, that thread got moved to help. umm wtf.
get rid of 11 of the 12 mods and teach the one remaining about which threads go where.
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Also, many topics are directed to the big "discuss" thread. (the one that was started before this forum even existed, with a ton of useless junk) Why make people go through that? It's convenient to only read threads of interest...
And why mess with threads that have been dead for days?

mgd76 said:
Also, many topics are directed to the big "discuss" thread. (the one that was started before this forum even existed, with a ton of useless junk) Why make people go through that? It's convenient to only read threads of interest...
And why mess with threads that have been dead for days?
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No, they are directed to be posted in general or Q&A. That's not difficult at all. This post has no place in the development section, period. It's not hard to read the rules and post in proper sections.
This isn't a debate, this is in the wrong section. Development goes in development. Questions in Q&A. Accessories in accessories. Everything else falls in general.
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lessthanzach said:
No, they are directed to be posted in general or Q&A. That's not difficult at all. This post has no place in the development section, period. It's not hard to read the rules and post in proper sections.
This isn't a debate, this is in the wrong section. Development goes in development. Questions in Q&A. Accessories in accessories. Everything else falls in general.
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I'm referring to the five recently locked topics in the general section... So, if not many, certainly more than a few.

mgd76 said:
I'm referring to the five recently locked topics in the general section... So, if not many, certainly more than a few.
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Didn't see those until you mentioned it. That seems ridiculous to me too. In fact I've never seen something like that done in other phone forums. I can imagine it being done for duplicate threads but forcing us to use s single thread seems ridiculous.
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First OP Thread Closed & Moved out of the Development Section I will ask you to read the Forum Rules on Posting.
The Moderation Team is made of volunteers and they are Members just like you, if you see threads and or posts out of place...report them, vice posting in this manner.
The Moderation Team can not be in all threads,...again if you find threads that need addressing report it, we rely on Members to point out issues/violations.
Thank You.

[Q] 10 Posts

So...
Iknow XDA for ages but never regestered (don't ask)
so Im not a "noob" to developing and stuff.
But when I want to relply to a post it gives me that 10 Posts thing
can anyone explain to me how could I pass through this thing?
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Post in Q&A or General section. (Don't just spam in OT, but help other users)
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Rules are rules. And if you've been around XDA for as long as you say you'd also know that this topic has been beat to death. @edisile is quite correct! :fingers-crossed:

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