I've clicked on the "View forum leaders" at the bottom of the page and got a question. Some assigned moderators (for example: first moderator on the list is +Que PPC) were shown as "Senior member" rather than "moderator" in their user profiles or posts. In this case, it is difficult to know if s/he is a mod or not in each of his/her post. Why? Any hidden agenda?
It's because the mods specific to Chef central don't have a title they only moderate the specific area same as forum specific mods but they will have a title next to name and can only moderate the specific area appointed, then Senior\Committee mods can moderate everywhere on the forum.
No hidden agenda.
So do the Chef central mods (without title) have the same power as other specific mod (such as closing thread, banning member etc)? Or they will be titled first before having power same as other mods?
In addition, I've seen that we have different types of mod now. What are the main differences of power between specific forum mod, senior moderator and Moderator Committee?
Thanks
The folks who moderate in CC (ex: Que PPC) should have their status (titles) changed to indicate that they moderate in CC. A note has been sent to the XDA Admins regarding this.
Moderator types:
Forum Moderator (New): moderates one or more sub-forums; usually devices forums but in some cases, generic forums such as CC. Can only moderate thread/posts in assigned sub-forums.
Moderator: moderates all of XDA, can apply account suspensions. This is the original moderator status.
Moderator Committee (New): group of moderators who have been assigned extra duties.
Cheers,
Thanks for explanation...
Regards
Edit: fixed everything close this thread.
Thread closed at op's request.
strongst
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Kachhawah87 said:
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@Kachhawah87
I've closed this thread and removed the reference to Telegram from it. Your duplicate "Telegram" thread in the "Guides etc." got deleted!
As an exemption from the last bullet of rule no. 5 of the XDA Forum Rules, we grant only developers the privilege to share references to their social media in their own development threads. These conditions obviously don't apply to your posts or you. Additional information is also available here via this thread that you were supposed to read prior to posting.
But also look close into this rule regarding the creation of duplicate threads and posts! Please refrain from sharing of social media and the creation of duplicates in future. Post only ONCE! Thanks for your cooperation!
Furthermore, this thread was anyway not qualifying for the development section! Refrain from posting in development unless you post own development, review rule no. 15 of the forum rules and in detail the stuck thread that I've linked above.
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Oswald Boelcke
Senior Moderator
Hello,
I have a question regarding the Pling.com if is allowed in XDA or not. According to rule XDA Rule 13 Pay-Per-Click links does not allowed, and that's true till Monday which I reported a thread for link there.
The moderator removed the thread from public view but few hours later it was back and today I got a notification that XDA is now allow Pling.com as File Host. I have nothing against the moderator but I want to be sure if it's allowed or not since I cannot find anywhere this change which XDA announces that pling.com is allowed.
Thanks.
Retrial said:
Hello,
I have a question regarding the Pling.com if is allowed in XDA or not. According to rule XDA Rule 13 Pay-Per-Click links does not allowed, and that's true till Monday which I reported a thread for link there.
The moderator removed the thread from public view but few hours later it was back and today I got a notification that XDA is now allow Pling.com as File Host. I have nothing against the moderator but I want to be sure if it's allowed or not since I cannot find anywhere this change which XDA announces that pling.com is allowed.
Thanks.
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Edit: Yes, Pling is permitted, I'm not sure we have a public thread available, but an announcement was made to the staff.
V0latyle said:
Here is the thread, although I'm not sure anyone outside recognized developers or moderators can see it.
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Thanks for the reply.
Yeap I can't see the thread but I see the title of the link which is saying enabling-pling-on-xda.
Thanks for the clarification.
Retrial said:
Thanks for the reply.
Yeap I can't see the thread but I see the title of the link which is saying enabling-pling-on-xda.
Thanks for the clarification.
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My mistake, that thread was presented to the RD's as a source of opinion.
To answer your question: Yes, Pling is an approved file host. At some point I imagine we will have a public announcement.
Retrial said:
The moderator removed the thread from public view but few hours later it was back and today I got a notification that XDA is now allow Pling.com as File Host. I have nothing against the moderator but I want to be sure if it's allowed or not since I cannot find anywhere this change which XDA announces that pling.com is allowed.
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Hello and good morning.
From your screenshots I see that @Funk Wizard was the acting moderator. What occured was that during the handling of the first report, the decision about pling.com was still under discussion in the responsible moderators body and as such pending, although all moderators were already aware that such a discussion was ongoing.
Then the discussion was finally made yesterday and announced to all moderators; the reason why the next, new report was now handled as done by Funk.
Retrial said:
Yeap I can't see the thread but I see the title of the link which is saying enabling-pling-on-xda.
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Just for your information: I've removed the link from the quotation in your post because it referred to a forum with limited access.
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Oswald Boelcke
Senior Moderator
Oswald Boelcke said:
Hello and good morning.
From your screenshots I see that @Funk Wizard was the acting moderator. What occured was that during the handling of the first report, the decision about pling.com was still under discussion in the responsible moderators body and as such pending, although all moderators were already aware that such a discussion was ongoing.
Then the discussion was finally made yesterday and announced to all moderators; the reason why the next, new report was now handled as done by Funk.
Just for your information: I've removed the link from the quotation in your post because it referred to a forum with limited access.
Regards
Oswald Boelcke
Senior Moderator
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Hello Oswald,
Yes, this is what I imagined after the clarification of V0latyle.
Nothing against the moderator Funk. I just wanted to be sure because I maintain a collection & guides thread (like this) and some ROMs / Kernels are hosted there, so I can include them.
Thanks for your time looking at this and for the detailed explanation.
Retrial said:
Hello Oswald,
Yes, this is what I imagined after the clarification of V0latyle.
Nothing against the moderator Funk. I just wanted to be sure because I maintain a collection & guides thread (like this) and some ROMs / Kernels are hosted there, so I can include them.
Thanks for your time looking at this and for the detailed explanation.
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I'm fully aware that you didn't complain about @Funk Wizard and I'm convinced nobody read it that way. Actually, anything different had wondered me because Funk was perfectly correct with all his action.
And affirmative, at your own discretion you can certainly now add links to pling.com to your repo's, collections or guides. We highly appreciate that you keep them up to speed.
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Oswald Boelcke
Pling now accepted on XDA. Does that mean it's no longer considered as a Pay-Per-Click link.
Austinredstoner said:
Pling now accepted on XDA. Does that mean it's no longer considered as a Pay-Per-Click link.
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Affirmative, we now accept it as a filehost on XDA. If you go to opendesktop.org payout terms & conditions it's a paid-per-download site, and we're well aware. We discussed it lengthly, under consideration of multiple aspects and feedback from our recognised developers.