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my grievance is if i only care about a certain thing.. this case asking about bugs in certain rom thread.. to the developer.. i have to post 10 stupid times in other threads i care nothing about.. i guess 9 more than this.. and it irritates me.. to be able to engage in the only thing i care about's convo. other than that.. this site rocks. my first time flashing my own phone and it has been a big help using this site. if i wasnt such a motorhead i would get into development myself.. if i knew where to start.. im sure thats on this site too.. but thats it. thanks xda for being awesome.. but stupid at the same time.

Create a thread in your device's Q&A. Or post in that rom's discussion thread if one exists.

You know what I find frustrating? People who are too lazy to SEARCH and find the other 500 posts whining about the 10 post rule and instead start a new one to add to the pile.

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my grievance is if i only care about a certain thing.. this case asking about bugs in certain rom thread.. to the developer.. i have to post 10 stupid times in other threads i care nothing about.. i guess 9 more than this.. and it irritates me.. to be able to engage in the only thing i care about's convo. other than that.. this site rocks. my first time flashing my own phone and it has been a big help using this site. if i wasnt such a motorhead i would get into development myself.. if i knew where to start.. im sure thats on this site too.. but thats it. thanks xda for being awesome.. but stupid at the same time.
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I think you just proved your username accurate.
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Sometimes you have to follow rules you don't particularly like.
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BretonGirl said:
You know what I find frustrating? People who are too lazy to SEARCH and find the other 50000000 posts whining about the 10 post rule and instead start a new one to add to the pile.
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Fixed that for you.
OP, nobody is asking you to make ten stupid posts, in fact I'm asking you not to.
The rule is there for a reason and a good one at that. Thread closed.
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10 posts?

Keep gettin dis stinkin error that I have to post somethin in q and a soooooo dis is my bull**** way of doin dat
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devichris said:
Keep gettin dis stinkin error that I have to post somethin in q and a soooooo dis is my bull**** way of doin dat
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It is just a way to protect the Development section from bull**** posts like this. Just participate in Q&A or post in General in the Rumor thread. You can get 10 posts in 10 minutes there.
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You dont have to start new threads to meet that requirement but since this is already here just keep posting in here to meet that requirement. What rom do you plan or are running?
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xopher.hunter said:
You dont have to start new threads to meet that requirement but since this is already here just keep posting in here to meet that requirement. What rom do you plan or are running?
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From the look of the op, I don't think he deserves to post in development...
ugothakd said:
From the look of the op, I don't think he deserves to post in development...
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devichris said:
Keep gettin dis stinkin error that I have to post somethin in q and a soooooo dis is my bull**** way of doin dat
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Unfortunately, it's because of posts like this that this rule was put in place.
I shudder to think what useless crap you wish to flood the Development section with.
<cue> "Kumbaya, my Lord"
It can be frustrating for those who generally browse and only post after not finding the right question answer combo. But, that is not the norm.
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It can be frustrating for those who generally browse and only post after not finding the right question answer combo. But, that is not the norm.
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That is what Q&A section is for. Then after getting the question answered the user gains knowledge they can pass on. The 10 posts are easily reached that way.
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jat255 said:
I'm in the same boat. I use and test a bunch of different roms, but can never report my bugs or ask ROM specific questions in the dev threads. Usually I can find my answer by searching, but that's not always the case. I guess I'm more of a watcher than an active participant at this point.
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Just post a legitimate question in Q&A and respond with thank you's and what is the best way to do that's and you will hit 10 posts in less than a day. And then you are good to go. People using the ROMs that have answers read Q&A too.
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ugothakd said:
From the look of the op, I don't think he deserves to post in development...
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Both u and I have seen how nubes destroy dev threads with comments/issues that have A) either been posted in the op or B) previusly stated....with that being said I have no intention of bein a pain in anyones ass I just feel...restricted in a sense....like a little kid that was told he can play in the play ground but not talk to anyone...but for the right reasons...
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RandomKing said:
Unfortunately, it's because of posts like this that this rule was put in place.
I shudder to think what useless crap you wish to flood the Development section with.
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I wasn't intending to flood anything with useless crap =]....
There was a link in the miui thread for the newer version at 4shared....I was wondring why it was only 4kb wehn I downloaded it but at the 4shared site it said it was 90 sumthing mb...BUT....I came back later nd download it...
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Like all things new people have to suffer for past people abusing or screwing something up. It is a protection from Spammers and people just popping on, saying something stupid and they're gone. It is only for the development section where posts should be more professional and intelligent. 10 posts are nothing. But it is a small safety. Perhaps if the OP was worded more professionally the flaming would not have started.
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kennyglass123 said:
Like all things new people have to suffer for past people abusing or screwing something up. It is a protection from Spammers and people just popping on, saying something stupid and they're gone. It is only for the development section where posts should be more professional and intelligent. 10 posts are nothing. But it is a small safety. Perhaps if the OP was worded more professionally the flaming would not have started.
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True....
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If you've been reading the threads (which I'm sure you have), you'll find the Epic community is the most helpful, most welcoming one around. Trust me, I work on the Evo 4G as well and the Epic boards are much more tight-knit.
Having said that- did you get the answer to the MIUI issue? Sounds like it was just a bad download...
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Just a forum tip

I think the development section after selecting it should then have sections for EACH version rom. ie. Froyo, Gingerbread, ICS.
So that when you are looking at what is being developed you are not diluted with newer releases of older versions when you are really trying to find the best of a specific version.
This would allow it to be more organized.
+1 Would save a lot of confusion for noobs as well. Specific mods for specific version go in that section and so on and so forth .. yeah. Like it.
well there is only gingerbread and ICS, some mods are universal so you would have to post twice? and would you split up the theme and apps section too?
Good idea. Truth is though just more places for non readers to post in the wrong sections.
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shovelhead83 said:
Good idea. Truth is though just more places for non readers to post in the wrong sections.
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This
People have trouble following the current organizational scheme
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Good idea. Truth is though just more places for non readers to post in the wrong sections.
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Like how this topic is in the wrong section.
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This idea is irrelevant because all people have to do is read. Even if the Title doesn't say the firmware version, the OP will 9 times out of 10.
The thought is good, but in reality.....nah bro
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Why the hell not? Even if the
OP does contain the firmware version, it would stop a lot of the confusion for the noobs that don't read. As for people that DO read, it would be convenient to go in a section with, say, just ICS ROMs, to check out the latest goodies instead of having to look through all the GB ROMs and other things that aren't ICS related.
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If people don't read And flash and destroy....it's their fault.. There are already "please read if you're new" posts or "if you're new to ICS" posts. If people are lazy and disregard proper guided precautions to help inform everybody before they start messing with expensive phones....then a bricked phone is what you'll get.
I don't cater to the weak and lazy.
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If this was implemented does anyone want to start a pool on how long it will take before a dev gets flamed for not posting in the right section
Funny thing is the noob want to jump straight in and flash and screw things up then freak out then read lol
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This Nobama entitlement mentality gets old.....fast!
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Is this not the way it already is? If you can't be bothered to read a few lines of text maybe you shouldn't be flashing anything to your phone.
2.3.X = GB
4.0.X = ICS
Pretty difficult, i know.
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Is this not the way it already is? If you can't be bothered to read a few lines of text maybe you shouldn't be flashing anything to your phone.
2.3.X = GB
4.0.X = ICS
Pretty difficult, i know.
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Oh god this is so true.
Now girls
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I think most people commenting are missing the point. Of course its not that important to people like us who come here often and keep up with everything.
But if you imagine the noob who means well, and is just trying to find the information that he needs, this web board is immensely cluttered.
Honestly, thats why you have so many noobs posting dumb questions and asking the same things over and over again. Most people aren't trying to clutter the forums, but when they can't find what they want quickly they give up and just start their own thread which gets on everyones nerves.
i think more sub-headings and forum breakdowns would help a lot honestly. And at the very least give mods a fresh place to police and (hopefully) control post whoring.
my .02
Oh boo hoo those poor noobs we need to hand them step by steps and make sure that everyone has the opportunity to flash rooms! Rom flashing is a basic human right and every American should get it free of hassle!
I say the free account registration inhibits minorities like the computer illiterate and old people, we should abolish this account registration so everyone has the opportunity to post anything!
In fact those poor souls who brick their phones should get new ones for free, I mean the developers get donations so they should spread the wealth around it would be better for everyone!
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Darmokk said:
I think most people commenting are missing the point. Of course its not that important to people like us who come here often and keep up with everything.
But if you imagine the noob who means well, and is just trying to find the information that he needs, this web board is immensely cluttered.
Honestly, thats why you have so many noobs posting dumb questions and asking the same things over and over again. Most people aren't trying to clutter the forums, but when they can't find what they want quickly they give up and just start their own thread which gets on everyones nerves.
i think more sub-headings and forum breakdowns would help a lot honestly. And at the very least give mods a fresh place to police and (hopefully) control post whoring.
my .02
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I find it hard to believe clutter is the reason dumb threads are started.
Raise your hand if you have seen someone post a question or news item that has already been posted less than 5 threads down in the first page of general at the time of posting.
*raises hand*
Forums sections are well explained and disclosed, even if people rant and flame at noobs, it is still a noob friendly atmosphere here, the problem also is that devs and senior members still repeat themselves overe and over trying to help noobs and besides alot of members on xda are just too lazy to read, only screwing up people learn to either not to touch or mess with something they shouldn't have mess with in first place, nobody was born knowing all, yet nobody was born brainless, if people screw up after so many threads of guides and how to's lost in limbo around the forums, let them screw up, imbeciles only see the finger that is pointig the right direction.
If stickies, guides and bibles haven't helped, it is useless to clutter this forums with more subforums
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Bottom line is everyone here was a noob...somewhere at sometime. All everyone needs to do is read people with respect and not flame.
"f_ing noob, learn to search" I'd not the way to fix things
Would you yell at a child for doing something when its an innocent mistake. I'm not saying all noobs are innocent...but you catch more flies with honey then vinegar
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34664900
Look before posting.
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Im reporting you for consistently making worthless threads. This is called trolling and is against the rules.
Not only do you post worthless topics but you also post things that are not safe to flash in these forums. You have done this in the past and I will let the moderators deal with you
If you do not understand what is going on or do not understand english DO NOT POST THINGS THAT CAN DAMAGE OTHERS PHONES OR PROPERTY
I mean why are you posting stuff like this?
You were posting roms for other phones in here a couple weeks ago! Get out
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ssCISengineer said:
Im reporting you for consistently making worthless threads. This is called trolling and is against the rules.
Not only do you post worthless topics but you also post things that are not safe to flash in these forums. You have done this in the past and I will let the moderators deal with you
If you do not understand what is going on or do not understand english DO NOT POST THINGS THAT CAN DAMAGE OTHERS PHONES OR PROPERTY
I mean why are you posting stuff like this?
You were posting roms for other phones in here a couple weeks ago! Get out
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What are you talking about? This has been tried an tested on the T-mobile Note 2. Is it really necessary for every single one of your posts to be negative? It seems to me that you have some real life self esteem issues and come online to be billy bad ass to make up for it.
What im talkimg about is that you need to see his post history. And youre only saying that because I hit the button on you too...for spamming private message boxes....remember?
The fact of the matter is not that I made a negative post. Its that this is a forum for development of software for mobile devices and he repeatwdly posts either nonsensical or meaningless threads.
But YOU always show up trying to save someone. VIIRUS, and now this guy.Why dont you just check his threads and every single person says the same thing.
But it seems you suffer from the same affliction as he. You are incapable of investigating anything before you go tap tap tapping on that keyboard.
Do I need to post the links for you?
You guys just dont want to hear the truth because you know ill get around to one of you later on and it scares you.
You need to focus more on the galaxy note 2 in these forums, and less on spamming mailboxes, trying to save people on these forums, and way way less on psychology.
Or if things like 'feelings' and other people 'emotions' are really of interest to you there are certainly forums that you can register to be a part of that community. Here are some I found for you
www.depressionforums.org/forums/.../ ...
www.pmscentral.com/forum
What you are missing is that this is not the post whatever you want forum. Do you really want to sift through crap like that when you come to xda? I mean he posts in the development forums sometimes....ugh im done trying to explain anything to you. Check those links out
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Spamming private messages? You'll get around to me too? You are a nutcase. You pm'd me. You are like that whiny little **** that begged the teacher to be a hall monitor. You aren't a mod and you don't have to post your dumbass comments to report a thread. And yes, I know. You are going to report this post. Good for you buddy.
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ssCISengineer said:
Im reporting you for consistently making worthless threads. This is called trolling and is against the rules.
Not only do you post worthless topics but you also post things that are not safe to flash in these forums. You have done this in the past and I will let the moderators deal with you
If you do not understand what is going on or do not understand english DO NOT POST THINGS THAT CAN DAMAGE OTHERS PHONES OR PROPERTY
I mean why are you posting stuff like this?
You were posting roms for other phones in here a couple weeks ago! Get out
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No my friend as a matter of fact you are the troll. You "troll" this forum looking for people who make stupid posts and try to call them out. Instead of trying to monitor what everyone is doing why don't you just let the idiotic posts bury themselves. This is what we have been doing for years here on XDA. A "forum vigilante" such as yourself isn't going to change things. So take a moment, relax, and move on
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Please read people holy cow!!!

To all xda-ers
Read read read and read again.....then search....and read some more holy crap people the CALL ECHO ON JELLYBEAN ROMS WILL BE PRESENT UNTIL WE GET AN OFFICIAL ROM FROM TMOBILE OR UNTIL SOMEONE FINDS A PERMNANET FIX FOR IT UNTIL THEN STOP ASKING ABOUT IT JEEZE... I don't know how many times I've seen this question but I've seen it one too many.
Theirs small things like make sure noise suppression is checked in your call settings or someone else stated that turning the volume down a bit fixes it. And or flashing another radio could cause a temp fix for it...but please read and or search before asking questions......
Number one rule here guys search before asking questions as your question may have been answered already and 95% of the time IT HAS!!!
Im done ranting now thanks for READING! And have a wonderful afternoon
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Cool story bro.
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I've never had a call echo complaint on AOKP JB, and have been running it for months.
I hope you feel really good about yourself, starting this thread all over such a small issue.
The irony of this post is that now when people search up "call echo" on the search bar now, this is the first thread out of several dozens of other threads that shows up and mentions this issue.
What's worst is that the post doesn't solve anything at all, lol. If it really bothered you, you could have simply provided links in your post to the particular threads where those who are actually looking will know where to search for prior answers.
In that way it will save you time and others... additionally, your rant wouldn't be another waste of space in these forums and instead actual be of some use to people... just a thought.
In the second paragraph I clearly stated the little things that people have found to temporarily fix the issue
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I hope you feel really good about yourself, starting this thread all over such a small issue.
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And its a small issue that every one keeps asking about Instead of searching or reading thru the forums I've seen it asked at least 10 times or more in multiple threads I myself don't have the issue and why even post in here saying This is a waste of space when your reply was also a waste considereing none of you posted anything to help with the issue either but clearly just posted to flame
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What kind of responses were you expecting from your post? Obviously since you emphasized greatly that people need to use the search bar more there is no need for us to add more to the minor information you already posted other than proper links... which then again contradicts using the search bar. As much as it is a nuisance, there are always going to be people on these forums who will ask old questions... don't let it be your problem, you're not obliged to answer the questions all the time. There are actually some bright people on the forums that enjoy the idea of helping someone (even if it's a common question), cheers!
Yeah I'm aware of that I've been trying to help people out all day myself
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Not all chip sets are equal and perform the same with custom kernels remember that.
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Y MY PHONE ECHO? SAMSUNG AND XDA Y U NO FIX??? ERMAGHEEEERD
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You guys can criticize this post all u want but he's right.. People suck..
Kind of like how Mohan asked people not to post in his Dev thread unless they have logs. And to use the embryo general thread instead yet people still fill his thread with the same few questions... It's crazy..
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FineTalent said:
...As much as it is a nuisance, there are always going to be people on these forums who will ask old questions... don't let it be your problem, you're not obliged to answer the questions all the time. There are actually some bright people on the forums that enjoy the idea of helping someone (even if it's a common question), cheers!
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^^^ This ^^^
I understand your wanting to rant and I feel your frustration (Believe me when I say this. You should see some of the stuff that comes our way). Like FT said above, there is always going to be someone that asks the same question over and over and over, sometimes the same question in multiple threads. These people will never learn. But they are becoming more and more predominate in the forums lately.
We have 4.8m users and anywhere from 36-50k users online at a time. That type of userbase is fantastically hard to comprehend when it comes to things like this. Few want to learn anymore and many just come here to make their phone/tablet cool looking and could care less about smali hacks, de/compiling apks (what apk means for that matter), Android.policy.jars,...
Best answer I could give you now is to simply ignore those posts and move on to the next relevant post. If you want to answer, then by all means. Users should help each other when possible. But that doesn't mean spoonfeeding either.
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I'll leave this thread open until 11am est if anyone else want to respond but after that it is getting Closed Closed Closed Closed Closed
He's absolutely right about the post but unfortunately it was a waste of time and effort because most of the people that ask the same questions over and over are never gonna take the time to read this
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He's absolutely right about the post but unfortunately it was a waste of time and effort because most of the people that ask the same questions over and over are never gonna take the time to read this
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This is true and hilarious..
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Cm-10.2 WE R OFFICIAL

weve made it we are know official on cyanogenmod..... ty SHELLNUT2,spleef ,team_lgog,bmp777..idk who else but any who contributed to making it possible....
official page :http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Ls970_Info
Been checking every so often for nightlies. Can't wait. Like I've said before this is the most excitement I've had for this phone since I bought last Nov!
There's levels too this and shellnut took it to the next,..
I don't usually post the "Hey this is a duplicate thread" responses, but this really is not a necessary thread. You even commented on the other thread, why could this not have just been an update over here?
This kind of stuff just clogs up the forums and makes it more difficult for people to find what they want. It's great that we are an official CM device, but it's already been brought to our attention. Anything else on the matter should be posted the original thread.
Well I don't try to post stuff like this but once people started finding out I knew there b multiple posts about and multiple posts asking questions so I figure one thread to cover what ever people need to know or ask about it ... Sorry didn't mean to make y'all mad....
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Well I don't try to post stuff like this but once people started finding out I knew there b multiple posts about and multiple posts asking questions so I figure one thread to cover what ever people need to know or ask about it ... Sorry didn't mean to make y'all mad....
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No one's mad homie, just something to look out for next time.
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No one's mad homie, just something to look out for next time.
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Just trying to catch it before people start about being official and asking were the night lies ,where the downloads stuff like that ... Seen it happen all the time ... Just rather have one dumb post that can get buried instead of 5-10 threads all pertaining to same topic ...
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bigfdaddy2 said:
Just trying to catch it before people start about being official and asking were the night lies ,where the downloads stuff like that ... Seen it happen all the time ... Just rather have one dumb post that can get buried instead of 5-10 threads all pertaining to same topic ...
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Like terence said, nobody is mad. I just think that the best method is to keep a thread at the top of the section rather than create a new one for incoming information on the same topic.
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Like terence said, nobody is mad. I just think that the best method is to keep a thread at the top of the section rather than create a new one for incoming information on the same topic.
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OK I was wrong sorry ...mods delete post ....
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Thanks for the heads up bud

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