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Who to ask about closed thread?

Hi everybody,
I wonder why a thread of mine was closed in one of the forums and I really have no idea what I did wrong and even who to ask what and why? (The thread is in the ROM development section of the Topaz forum, concerning cooked ROMs that support handwriting).
Are there seperate admins for each sub-forum and if yes, how can I find them? Or who else can I ask?
thanks & cheers

tesla33 said:
Hi everybody,
I wonder why a thread of mine was closed in one of the forums and I really have no idea what I did wrong and even who to ask what and why? (The thread is in the ROM development section of the Topaz forum, concerning cooked ROMs that support handwriting).
Are there seperate admins for each sub-forum and if yes, how can I find them? Or who else can I ask?
thanks & cheers
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Any mod will do. You may have either posted warez, links to it/them, instructions on how to get them. Or simply posted in the wrong section altogether.

egzthunder1 said:
Any mod will do. You may have either posted warez, links to it/them, instructions on how to get them. Or simply posted in the wrong section altogether.
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Thank you for the quick reply. I understand the warez rules and all. But this question... in the ROM development section:
Is there any decent cooked ROM that either supports the official HTC handwriting update for the Topaz or even has it already integrated?
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I just dont get it
Again, thanks for the reply

tesla33 said:
Thank you for the quick reply. I understand the warez rules and all. But this question... in the ROM development section:
I just dont get it
Again, thanks for the reply
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Maybe someone else asked something similar and you are getting penalized for not searching before posting. That is the only other thing that I can think of.

oh dear, if thats the reason, I'm simply to stupid for this forum I searched and poured more than 8 hours yesterday over posts, especially the ROM post, which all have well over 2000 replies. So I know that people are asking about handwriting but the question usually just goes under in the ROM threads....
Nevermind, will post it in the admin question thread where it probably belongs. Owe you a coffee though, let me fix my paypal issues first

Hi tesla33,
Which thread? I'll have a look to see if there was a "closure" reason added. It's possible it may have inadvertently been closed during Spam cleanup by a mod that had multiple browser session/tabs open.
Cheers,

Hi hilaireg,
thank you so much for looking into this. I'm feeling almost embarassed now for all the trouble but I was kinda intimidated:
The thread is:
thread

tesla33 said:
Hi hilaireg,
thank you so much for looking into this. I'm feeling almost embarassed now for all the trouble but I was kinda intimidated:
The thread is:
thread
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More than likely it was closed because it has nothing to do with rom development. The rom development forum is not the place to ask for specific roms or features. It should have been asked in the general forum.
The Mod should have given you the courtesy of moving it for you or at the very least a short explanation. I have from day one, had a problem with the quick unexplained trigger finger of many mods on this forum. A little common courtesy would be nice.

@denco7:
Agreed. Going to "chalk" it up to an honest mistake made by the moderator who closed it (not me).
@tesla33:
I've re-opened the thread and moved it to the General section. I see no reason why the question can't be asked . The Admins are working on the Search function of late to see about improving it ... cause at the moment, I've found needles in haystacks far sooner than answers.

tesla33 said:
oh dear, if thats the reason, I'm simply to stupid for this forum I searched and poured more than 8 hours yesterday over posts, especially the ROM post, which all have well over 2000 replies. So I know that people are asking about handwriting but the question usually just goes under in the ROM threads....
Nevermind, will post it in the admin question thread where it probably belongs. Owe you a coffee though, let me fix my paypal issues first
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Looking forward to the coffee
As far as the searching, once you are in a thread that you think may have some relevant information for you, you will see a button that reads "Search This Thread". Simply put in your search parameters and choose to get "posts" for results. This will make it a lot simpler than going through 2000+ posts.
As far as the transcriber, there are cabs out there since lots of Chefs actually leave this option out due to lack of space in the rom. Let me know if you need help finding the cab.

hilaireg said:
@denco7:
Agreed. Going to "chalk" it up to an honest mistake made by the moderator who closed it (not me).
@tesla33:
I've re-opened the thread and moved it to the General section. I see no reason why the question can't be asked . The Admins are working on the Search function of late to see about improving it ... cause at the moment, I've found needles in haystacks far sooner than answers.
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FYI, one of the more reasonable and nicer Mods around here.

Thank you, thank you and thank you
Again, I'm not complaining. I was actually considering where to put it and thought "hhmm, I'm asking about custom ROMs wit a certain capability, so better put it in the ROMs sections"
I understand how incredibly difficult it is to maintain a forum of this size and activity (I was once a Diablo2 Battlenet Mod ) and I appreciate the work you all put in there. I probably wouldnt have made this thread if it was my 400th post... after a while you get a feeling for where what goes and also for the search cloud and how to find stuff. But imagine if a newbie comes in here and wants to find out if his new Topaz is an ARM or a SH3 because he/she wants to download the Total Commander Beta... (ok, well maybe this is not the forum for people who dont know what hardware they are using)
I promise I'll behave in the future
Thank you again for sorting this out for me, very much appreciated
P.S.
egzthunder1 said:
Looking forward to the coffee
As far as the searching, once you are in a thread that you think may have some relevant information for you, you will see a button that reads "Search This Thread". Simply put in your search parameters and choose to get "posts" for results. This will make it a lot simpler than going through 2000+ posts.
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Understood. But with threads this big, lets assume that somebody asks in Dutty's ROM thread if it supports handwriting on page 100 something. You cant be 100% sure that if the question was answered it contains the word "handwriting" again. So you do have to read to the nect 150 pages to see if somebody actually answered the question (Nobody did, I should know)
egzthunder1 said:
As far as the transcriber, there are cabs out there since lots of Chefs actually leave this option out due to lack of space in the rom. Let me know if you need help finding the cab.
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The transcriber apps never seem to work as well as HTC own software. I did try some (calligrapher etc) but the results are less than I expected
Ok, I really shut up now

tesla33 said:
Thank you, thank you and thank you
Again, I'm not complaining. I was actually considering where to put it and thought "hhmm, I'm asking about custom ROMs wit a certain capability, so better put it in the ROMs sections"
I understand how incredibly difficult it is to maintain a forum of this size and activity (I was once a Diablo2 Battlenet Mod ) and I appreciate the work you all put in there. I probably wouldnt have made this thread if it was my 400th post... after a while you get a feeling for where what goes and also for the search cloud and how to find stuff. But imagine if a newbie comes in here and wants to find out if his new Topaz is an ARM or a SH3 because he/she wants to download the Total Commander Beta... (ok, well maybe this is not the forum for people who dont know what hardware they are using)
I promise I'll behave in the future
Thank you again for sorting this out for me, very much appreciated
P.S.
Understood. But with threads this big, lets assume that somebody asks in Dutty's ROM thread if it supports handwriting on page 100 something. You cant be 100% sure that if the question was answered it contains the word "handwriting" again. So you do have to read to the nect 150 pages to see if somebody actually answered the question (Nobody did, I should know)
The transcriber apps never seem to work as well as HTC own software. I did try some (calligrapher etc) but the results are less than I expected
Ok, I really shut up now
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I am actually talking about the transcriber itself, not calligrapher or anything else.

Good morning,
slight misunderstanding here because: dont ask me why but HTC did not include a transcriber in the Topaz ROMs

denco7 said:
FYI, one of the more reasonable and nicer Mods around here.
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I hope I also fall into that category

Allow Editing of OP by Multiple Users?

Especially for ROMs, kernels, etc where the post needs to be updated frequently, this would be a great feature. It would help to keep the OP updated, if the developer doesn't have time etc, or is actually developing Is there a way to make it so the OP of a thread can grant a few people access to edit his post, like forum admins can?

Great idea for collaborative work!

The idea has come up before, but I think it would be fairly difficult to implement, so you could control who could edit your post...
Paul22000 said:
Especially for ROMs, kernels, etc where the post needs to be updated frequently, this would be a great feature. It would help to keep the OP updated, if the developer doesn't have time etc, or is actually developing Is there a way to make it so the OP of a thread can grant a few people access to edit his post, like forum admins can?
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We could have Wiki below the original post, which multiple users can edit, like slickdeals.net have...it works fairly well...

Ahem

Thread Wiki?
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=530283
http://boardreader.com/thread/Wiki_for_vbulletin_3_8_4_vtnX5jds.html
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=214649

Paul22000 said:
Thread Wiki?
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=530283
http://boardreader.com/thread/Wiki_for_vbulletin_3_8_4_vtnX5jds.html
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=214649
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I'm not aware of the code or addon for Thread Wiki being available, as I've looked before... Those are mostly people requesting it

pulser_g2 said:
I'm not aware of the code or addon for Thread Wiki being available, as I've looked before... Those are mostly people requesting it
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Oh, damn

[Q] Synergy Developers Please Help.

Dear Developers,
I had flashed the new Synergy Rom RC1 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1144447) which I admired and like it very much, since I like the Sence Ui. I have a small request from this rom developers, please I need support for RTL (Right To Left) languages support like Arabic and Hebrew languages, I successfully patched this method, (http://blog.devasque.com/?page_id=11) which successfully added the arabic fonts and now I can send sms in arabic and the RTL is correct there, what is missing is the RTL support for Gmail messages (Subjects+Message Detail) and the Browser, only opera browser can support RTL at this time, There is a source-code that the same blog above referred to and this code is used to fix the RTL issue in libwebcore.so this is a link to it (https://github.com/Y6b/android_external_webkit/commit/8637f8f6b8f78aef69a1a1919c9df54358513706). What my request is can any one of the developers look at the code in the link and the ability to include it in the source-code of synergy so it can support Arabic and Hebrew without problem. by the way cyanogen mode supports these languages perfectly, but I dont like cyanogen I like synergy and hope the developers can do something about it.
Thanks

There is no need to make a new thread for this. Just post your request in the thread for that rom.

sitlet said:
There is no need to make a new thread for this. Just post your request in the thread for that rom.
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In order to post in the Android Development section of this forum, you must have 10 posts in other areas. Since the OP had 3 posts, he is unable to post in the Android Development section.

Serial70 said:
In order to post in the Android Development section of this forum, you must have 10 posts in other areas. Since the OP had 3 posts, he is unable to post in the Android Development section.
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Thanks appreciate

Serial70 said:
In order to post in the Android Development section of this forum, you must have 10 posts in other areas. Since the OP had 3 posts, he is unable to post in the Android Development section.
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Then maybe he should get 10 posts first. The whole point of that is so new members can get to know other parts and people on the forum first.

sitlet said:
Then maybe he should get 10 posts first. The whole point of that is so new members can get to know other parts and people on the forum first.
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This is my point. Read this thread from the beginning, your first reply was asking why this question wasn't posted on the ROM thread in the Development section of the forum. I was explaining the reason. If he has a legitimate question and can't ask it where it needs to be asked, why not put it in the Q&A area? You do understand what the "Q" part of Q&A stands for, right? The OP is new to the forum and has a question. I feel its valid that this is brought up here since he can't address the issue in any other location.

I would also suggesting pming..
Gimme a couple a days to come up with a new sig that is cool.

Crossrocker said:
I would also suggesting pming..
Gimme a couple a days to come up with a new sig that is cool.
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Thanks Everybody, I really appreciate your understanding

With the method that was used to accomplish the language removal (aamikam optimization) it would be difficult to go back in and replace all the language packs in all the apk. If you want the language package back I would ask aamikam for the unoptimized version. If he feels Luke it he will give it to you.
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Thanks looking forward to the results.

Crossrocker said:
I would also suggesting pming..
Gimme a couple a days to come up with a new sig that is cool.
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PMing with the Mynions is welcome, I know. How is it received in the xda community as a whole?
Some people can be unnecessarily harsh.

I enjoy respinding to pm's.
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Any luck guys i have with my question?

Any Luck with my question

I desperately need a solution for this guys

OMG RC2 released and still now no answer ?

Keyboard shortcuts to navigate forums / threads?

I looked around a bit and didn't see it, so I'll ask here. Are there any keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the forums and threads? I've just switched to the XDA 2013 beta theme, and still don't know if any are available. If not, please consider this in the future. I've gotten accustomed to using it on Slashdot, and it makes life easier sometimes. Thanks!

I don't believe that works here, but it sounds interesting. If you would like to request it please post it here:
(requests) From the Users to the Mods & Admins

It does.
Alt + F4 closes ALL forums.
Magic, isn't it?
Sent from my Ouya

QuantumFoam said:
It does.
Alt + F4 closes ALL forums.
Magic, isn't it?
Sent from my Ouya
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Uh, yeah. Thanks.

mf2112 said:
I don't believe that works here, but it sounds interesting. If you would like to request it please post it here:
(requests) From the Users to the Mods & Admins
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Great suggestion. I posted a reply in the thread. We'll see if it gains any consideration.

zx3junglist said:
Great suggestion. I posted a reply in the thread. We'll see if it gains any consideration.
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Good work, I know stuff like this can take a bit to implement, but the mods and admins are good about listening when we try to make good suggestions.

Created Thread but not here.

I have two apps that our dev team has developed I was able to post one ShareON Audio in the Android apps and games section, but when I posted ShareON Video application it is not being posted. If this is not allowed I am very sorry. Should I have posted them both in the same thread?
Just didn't see anything about this.

Sorry
SpikaDevTeam said:
I have two apps that our dev team has developed I was able to post one ShareON Audio in the Android apps and games section, but when I posted ShareON Video application it is not being posted. If this is not allowed I am very sorry. Should I have posted them both in the same thread?
Just didn't see anything about this.
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Sorry about that got it to work.