[SUGGESTION] N x Reserved. - About xda-developers.com

Hi!
I don't have much experience with making new threads but I do understand why people add one or a few "reserved" posts to them. I've noticed they are present in virtually any thread until they are populated with useful information. I'm about to create a support thread for the device I own, something I'm really putting an effort into, but I was wondering how these "reserved" things work. Do I quickly, after creating the thread, jump to the Reply button, type "Reserved." and press submit? And if I add another, won't it merge with the first reply? This seems rather stressful and clumsy.
To simplify this, I would suggest a feature for creating new posts on XDA, geekily called "N x Reserved" or "N times Reserved". The setup is simple: enter a number and that amount (N) of reserved posts will simultaniously be launched with the new thread filled with nothing but "Reserved.". I used my best MS Paint-skills to illustrate this, see attachment.
If this is somehow incorporated already or there's a (magical) 'trick' to do this, please enlighten me! I failed to find any. Thank you for reading this.
-Timmy

Reserved. (just testing)

Reserved 2 (testing again)
Edit: OK, it didn't merge! Whew! That answers that question (it's still stressful though!). Sorry for triple posting! It's for the sake of education...

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[Request] Status update on the mediawiki

Hi
I haven't been round these forums as long as many, but I noticed the wiki was a bit out of date and through searching found that there was some intention to move to Mediawiki in 2006: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=267487
Unfortunately more searching only turned up 2 or 3 threads when users were asking how it was getting on. I think, with the nature of a wiki, we could open it up and run it like a community project when the scripts are there, to move pages from the existing wiki over rather than having one person do it all which could take a long time.
I'm no expert but anyone knows how wikipedia works so I think it's just a case of getting it done. Here's a brief guide http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/mediawiki/mediawiki_installation.htm
Anyway, to keep this thread concise:
- Where are we with the mediawiki (has it been shelved?)
- Would you be willing to open the project of migrating pages to the community to speed up the mediawiki
And errr, can't think of anything else, so I'll leave it there for now. If things do start moving along nicely, we could set up a thread to discuss specific areas that need work and get a team of editors together.
bumping for information
bumping to see if this is still alive?
Last update from Flar (site Admin) a few weeks ago when someone asked the same in the moderators forum was that moving from phpwiki to mediawiki is not as straight forward as they imagined initially, and also they first need to change the hosting server because of the extra added load from mediawiki (it's bit more server hungry than phpwiki).
Hi, I was wondering if there was any new development concerning this topic? I've been using the wiki more frequent lately, and it just lacks a lot of features and usability, which would be much improved by a move to MediaWiki.
p.s.: I've just donated a little something to help pay for additional hosting capacities.
Hey, I never knew this thread existed
I last PM'd Flar before I became a moderator at the back end of September with regards to this. I too would be very interested in see'ing an XDA MediaWiki.
She said that the person who is looking into is not always available, this is why there is a delay.
I will try and get and update on this, if I can.
Thanks
Dave

Need Wm5 Or Wm6 For N911

I HAVE AN POCKET PC == INVIEW == N911 (D-MEDIA) WM2003
AND I WANT TO UPGRADE THE SYSTEM TO WM5 OR WM6 IF ANY ONE KNOW WHAT VIRSION IS GOOD TO ME AND HOW TO UPGRADE
[email protected]
HELP ME PLEASE n911
no one can help me to get wm5 or wm6 for N911 PPC
Why you opened 2 threads??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=401113&highlight=N911
No One Answer To The First No One Can Help ?
Don't post the same thing twice!!!
With Virsion Is God To Mee And How Can I Upgrade Please
You are new so listen up!
Firstly, Welcome to XDA-DEVELOPERS!
This is not Craig's list. You are expected to read & learn here, not just type up wish lists like classified ads. This is a forum for Developers that has over the years become popular with the general public. As such, you are expected to read & learn. Know what you need & want before you post & be specific in the issues you're having.
Also, show respect. Use proper capitalization, use spaces, use paragraphs & punctuation. The easier you make it to read, the more likely someone will take their FREE time to actually read & help. Undestand, that if it appears that you've made NO effort, then those that have spent the time reading & learning will feel that you are unworthy of recieveing this sometimes hard earned info. Most of what you need is already available. Take some time & make an effort.
When looking for specific items, use the search button, or the "Search this Thread" tools for searches in specific areas.
I will give you a chance to edit & properly format your post. Do this & include some info you've looked up or searched for & have questions on. If you cannot do this, your post will be closed.
Thank you.
GSLEON3 said:
You are new so listen up!
Firstly, Welcome to XDA-DEVELOPERS!
This is not Craig's list. You are expected to read & learn here, not just type up wish lists like classified ads. This is a forum for Developers that has over the years become popular with the general public. As such, you are expected to read & learn. Know what you need & want before you post & be specific in the issues you're having.
Also, show respect. Use proper capitalization, use spaces, use paragraphs & punctuation. The easier you make it to read, the more likely someone will take their FREE time to actually read & help. Undestand, that if it appears that you've made NO effort, then those that have spent the time reading & learning will feel that you are unworthy of recieveing this sometimes hard earned info. Most of what you need is already available. Take some time & make an effort.
When looking for specific items, use the search button, or the "Search this Thread" tools for searches in specific areas.
I will give you a chance to edit & properly format your post. Do this & include some info you've looked up or searched for & have questions on. If you cannot do this, your post will be closed.
Thank you.
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Congrats on becoming a Mod!
That's a great explanation of what to do!
As far as I know there is no WM5 or 6 for the In-View D-Media N911. I see that you have posted this on other forums as well. No means No regardess of where you hear it.

Thread-specific moderators (for ROM threads)

Hello,
first thanks for this great place! I would have smashed my Touch HD if xda wouldnt exist
I have a suggestion regarding the ROM forums and threads:
As the cookers and chefs are mostly to busy to gather information from the thread and put them in the first(second...) post, it would be really nice if a threadstarter or moderator could assign a normal user as an "thread-specific" moderator (for only the first three posts for example). So volunteers, people very interested in this ROM, could maintain a buglist, tips and hints, fixes and other helpful stuff from the thousand and more pages and make the life for everybody easier.
Its sometimes really hard to find information in the thousand pages. I think a solution like this would help everybody and reduce the senseless spam questions in the ROM forums. All 1-2 pages new users ask the same as people before, and all are getting the answer "Read through the thread, its mentioned 10 pages before" for example.
Whats your opinion about this?
7Bit said:
Hello,
first thanks for this great place! I would have smashed my Touch HD if xda wouldnt exist
I have a suggestion regarding the ROM forums and threads:
As the cookers and chefs are mostly to busy to gather information from the thread and put them in the first(second...) post, it would be really nice if a threadstarter or moderator could assign a normal user as an "thread-specific" moderator (for only the first three posts for example). So volunteers, people very interested in this ROM, could maintain a buglist, tips and hints, fixes and other helpful stuff from the thousand and more pages and make the life for everybody easier.
Its sometimes really hard to find information in the thousand pages. I think a solution like this would help everybody and reduce the senseless spam questions in the ROM forums. All 1-2 pages new users ask the same as people before, and all are getting the answer "Read through the thread, its mentioned 10 pages before" for example.
Whats your opinion about this?
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Hi,
1. I don't think this is possible with the standard vB software. And I know the webmasters are adversed to applying "patches" unless they really help.
2. There is a problem of trust. Moderators are selected on here to be trustworthy, not to carry out malicious activities and to always be fair. I've seen plenty of people on here become friends and then enimies as quick as they can. Giving many users complete control over a single thread could become problematic. If you're just speaking about allowing users to edit another users thread. I can't see that been too risky - but still Impractical with the forum software.
An alternative, If the ROM cook would like someone to help manage the thread, they should arange before hand to let someone bag a few posts on the thread when it's first started (I know its not practical to existing threads). Moderators can help add posts when needed and remove any
pesky "First" messages someone might inject in the way .
Just my thoughts
Ta
Dave
Yes you are absolutly right, good idea
It would be enough if the moderators could move a post of the "Useful thread stuff Collecter / Maintainer" at the second or third position of an existing ROM thread, or if the creator already plans it when creating the thread. That would be exact the same without editing the board software or applying hacks...
7Bit said:
Yes you are absolutly right, good idea
It would be enough if the moderators could move a post of the "Useful thread stuff Collecter / Maintainer" at the second or third position of an existing ROM thread, or if the creator already plans it when creating the thread. That would be exact the same without editing the board software or applying hacks...
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Well if it's not possible to arrange this beforehand by timing a the time of thread creation, you could indeed ask on of the mods to help you out there. Don't look at me yet though, haven't figured that one out yet

two suggestions

First of all, I really enjoy the site, thanks for having it. It's an awesome place to come and get the info I need, and if i can help out others.
Anyways on to the first suggestion. I mostly stay around the htc hero (CDMA) section, so I'm not sure if this issue is site wide or not, but I've noticed a TON of spam. I realize moderators try there hardest to clean it up, but with such a large forum it's close to impossible to keep it clean, and I understand that. I think we need some sort of initiative to keep people from posting just for the heck of it. for example in the thread for the damagecontrol rom, I had to go through pages of spam to find useful info. People were posting things similar to "wow i've refreshed so much my f5 key is broke haha", c'mon that doesn't help out at all. Veering away from this subject a bit is all the people that just say thanks for the rom, perhaps this is a mod for vBulletin. I know there is one for IPB that adds a "thanks" button to the original post so people don't add "thanks for the stuff" posts. I don't know if everyone agrees with me but I'm really annoyed with having to go through page after page to find useful info.
This leads me to my second suggestion, which I'm not sure about. One idea I have to help organize the threads would be to add a wiki post right below the original post. I don't know if there is a mod available for vbull. to do this. An example of what I am thinking of would be here at slickdeals.net:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1906634
you can see in the wiki post, someone edited it to alert everyone that the deal is dead. I don't have to go to the last page to see this, it's right there. I truly think something like this would greatly improve organization and readability.
Thanks for reading and looking forward to reading responses,
-sam

[Suggestion] Thread wiki

It is possible to add a "thread wiki" post below the original post?
Eg in slickdeals, you have a common wiki below the OP that people can add stuff
I feel like threads should have things like that...
OP might not have time to update his/her post with relevant info that an another user can add
It might be difficult trying to look through 100 pages of posts to figure out if someone has a similar problem(or through search), while it is easy for multiple people to maintain a common wiki that they can all edit
EG: http://slickdeals.net/f/4803408-Thi...ted-by-users-like-you?p=51265310#edit51265310
paperWastage said:
It is possible to add a "thread wiki" post below the original post?
Eg in slickdeals, you have a common wiki below the OP that people can add stuff
I feel like threads should have things like that...
OP might not have time to update his/her post with relevant info that an another user can add
It might be difficult trying to look through 100 pages of posts to figure out if someone has a similar problem(or through search), while it is easy for multiple people to maintain a common wiki that they can all edit
EG: http://slickdeals.net/f/4803408-Thi...ted-by-users-like-you?p=51265310#edit51265310
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Interesting idea, not sure how adaptable it would be with the VBulletin software though. It might also be similar in effect to something I hear is going to be rolled out sometime soon, a post rating system so posts with more positive ratings will move to the top, and posts with enough negative ratings will be hidden.
I think though that the OP should either ask the mods to close the thread or hand it over to another user by contacting the forum admin if they don't have time to maintain their thread with important new information.
mf2112 said:
Interesting idea, not sure how adaptable it would be with the VBulletin software though. It might also be similar in effect to something I hear is going to be rolled out sometime soon, a post rating system so posts with more positive ratings will move to the top, and posts with enough negative ratings will be hidden.
I think though that the OP should either ask the mods to close the thread or hand it over to another user by contacting the forum admin if they don't have time to maintain their thread with important new information.
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I mean small details: like "most commonly encountered problems and solutions", that the OP might have time to add or not
For a dev thread, I rather have the dev (most likely the OP) focus on developing and other people helping out in figuring out problems by common users... users can update the wiki on the un-resolved problems so that the dev can see, without having the dev to read the last 3 pages that were newly posted
you can see in the Slickdeals thread... 179 pages of posts... some of them are "useless" in saying "thanks for the deal", while some people have legitimate questions (like "is this phone quad band") that other users answered 10 pages after their post... having a wiki means common info will be presented clearly without having to dig through the thread, and anyone can update that, not just the OP <--- most important point
EDIT: Slickdeals uses vBulletin too, but customized plugins... there are probably open source plugins out there, just trying to dig through
EDIT2: i guess SD doesn't use pure vBulletin plugins for that... maybe some CMS system
paperWastage said:
I mean small details: like "most commonly encountered problems and solutions", that the OP might have time to add or not
For a dev thread, I rather have the dev (most likely the OP) focus on developing and other people helping out in figuring out problems by common users... users can update the wiki on the un-resolved problems so that the dev can see, without having the dev to read the last 3 pages that were newly posted
you can see in the Slickdeals thread... 179 pages of posts... some of them are "useless" in saying "thanks for the deal", while some people have legitimate questions (like "is this phone quad band") that other users answered 10 pages after their post... having a wiki means common info will be presented clearly without having to dig through the thread, and anyone can update that, not just the OP <--- most important point
EDIT: Slickdeals uses vBulletin too, but customized plugins... there are probably open source plugins out there, just trying to dig through
EDIT2: i guess SD doesn't use pure vBulletin plugins for that... maybe some CMS system
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I guess the problem really is that the dev thread should not be used for support, but people insist on treating them that way. I think that there should be a "ROM XXXXX Support Thread" in the device Q&A forums and that is where such questions should go instead. Then there would be no problems with the restrictions since user support questions or bug reports without proper logging, details, attempted fixes, etc. would be moved from the dev thread into the support thread if they were able to post them there.
mf2112 said:
I guess the problem really is that the dev thread should not be used for support, but people insist on treating them that way. I think that there should be a "ROM XXXXX Support Thread" in the device Q&A forums and that is where such questions should go instead. Then there would be no problems with the restrictions since user support questions or bug reports without proper logging, details, attempted fixes, etc. would be moved from the dev thread into the support thread if they were able to post them there.
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even in support threads... who would maintain the massive throve of info that many people would ask? the OP(most likely the dev himself who made the thread), or every user who wants to?
example.... if a lot of people post below us, makes it go into 5 pages... someone on page 3 found a plugin that does what it works.... does it make sense for that info to be posted just below my first post by anyone, or is it on me(the OP) to edit my first post "someone on page 3 found this info"?
This is actually an interesting idea. We are busy adding other new features but definitely will keep this in mind. Right now, we do already have a wiki and there is nothing stopping someone from creating a wiki page while adding their thread, and linking to it, but it would be nice to integrate that directly into the page.
bitpushr said:
This is actually an interesting idea. We are busy adding other new features but definitely will keep this in mind. Right now, we do already have a wiki and there is nothing stopping someone from creating a wiki page while adding their thread, and linking to it, but it would be nice to integrate that directly into the page.
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yeah, but it's definitely not as seamless as having it right below the original post
lemme see if there are any plugins to "stream" that wiki page into a post...
Came here to request this too. And precisely for the same reasons as the OP.
This would be immediately embraced.
I don't understand the "I'm not sure this would be adaptable with vBulletin" comment since slickdeals uses vBulletin.
http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread.php/309-Wiki-Posts-for-VB4-by-BOP5-BETA
another vote for this.
i have been following a thread about about the development of 4.4 for the hisense sero 7 pro (randomblame, davepmer and others are awesome)
anyway it has a post count of nearly 1,000 and people come in and try the latest build, or just wanting to ask a question about the latest builds. the same questions get asked over and over. i don't really think its the fault of the person asking since who is going to read 1,000 posts just to see if his/her problem has been discussed.

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