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[GUIDE] - XDA New User Guide - Getting started on XDA - Part 3

~~~Posting Questions~~~

There are some restrictions on your posting ability when you first start here. For your first 7 posts, there is

a captcha prompt and a time limit in between posts. This is mostly to stop spammers from posting garbage

throughout every thread. There is a 2 minute limit between posting and editing your posts. This stops at

30 posts when you go from Junior Member to Member, so read twice, post once.

OK, you got through all that and you have a question that you need that answer to. You have searched,

and searched again, and searched again with different keywords, but you can't find the answer.

The question is, where do you post it?

The first and best place is to check your device's Q&A forum for a thread posted there,

either a general question thread, or a thread already posted there with a similar question.

When you post into a thread, that thread is then listed at the top of the forum it is in and the title turns

Bolded for everyone else so they know there is a new post. Someone else may see that thread

and know the answer and post it. If you need to open a new thread check here first for helpful advice.

Always remember advice from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Don't Panic!

Please post ALL relevant information. What ROM/Kernel, What you were doing when the problem surfaced,

What is the actual problem (not my phone won't boot, help!!), Were the planets aligned,...

Simple information can go along way to diagnose the problem/issue and it also prevents the reciprocal

post of "Need more info".

And we have all been there in Panic Mode where you freak out and just want to get some help. Noobs don't

look at these devices as phones or tablets, but rather as investment because well that is what they are at

$500-$800 a throw. I respect my device but that is because I know how to use and recovery it. Noobs don't.

They see a bootloop and it is strikingly similar to the toilet swirling their money down the drain.

That is when Panic Mode sets in.

Don't Panic. Don't be a noob. Be a New User who is smart and reads a lot and knows where things are and

how to find useful and timely information.

Remember, give it some time before reposting. XDA members live around the world and are not going to be

on your time zone and schedule. Wait a day and see if you get a response. If you want a notification of

someone else posting into that thread, click on the Thread Tools button at the top of the thread and choose

Subscribe, or click the Subscribe button at the top of the page.

Please do not simply "bump" the thread up. Add some more information as to additional things you have

tried to resolve the problem since your last post.

~~~Why can't I post in the Dev thread I want to?~~~

Fallen Spartan - Moderator Committee

Almost all of XDA is open to you right from the start. You can post into your devices General, Q&A,

Accessories, and Themes and Apps forums. You can learn a lot and help other new users with answers

you have found previously by reading the stickied guides in your device forum and in the

XDA General Discussion forums.

Please feel free to thank the dev several times instead of posting "Thanks for a great ROM".

Rate the dev's thread with 5 stars using the rate dropdown button at the top of every page of the thread.

If you feel that is not sufficient, most devs have a donate button with Paypal.

I promise you that they will remember you and appreciate you far more for donating even a couple of

dollars versus some post, however gushingly approving, on their ROM thread.

Please do not send private messages to the devs saying "Thanks for a great ROM"

instead of posting "Thanks for a great ROM". See above. :D

If you have read up to this point and still feel it is unfair that you cannot post into a dev forum thread,

please consider it from this perspective:

Is it so much to ask that you read for a bit first, pick up some knowledge and experience, help a few people

in the 90+% of XDA which is completely open to you, to participate with quality posts instead of BS posts,

in return for being able to post into any of the ROM threads from any dev on this site?

What XDA is all about

Also keep in mind that the mods are out there reading your posts, and if they believe you are posting junk

simply to get to 10 posts to post some non-dev comment in a dev thread, you could find all your posts

missing and your account temporarily disabled.

For more tips on how to reach 10 posts in a community acceptable way, please check here:

Postcount limit in developmental fora

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[GUIDE] - XDA New User Guide - Getting started on XDA - Part 4