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[About XDA developers] at28915:
Dear Mods:

I'm kinda new to posting here, but not to most of the internet and posting in general. My question is about a post I just did recently here. I was talking about SP Flash Tool and a couple of associated utils with the intention of copying the stock roms on my Nokia X100 and such. I posted a couple links and said a couple of lines about these files. I was hoping to get some feedback and some wiser more experienced folks would hold my hand in rooting my phone etc. I was hoping to get feedback and some brownie points.

INSTEAD, one of the mods smoked my post in a fashion, closed the thread, and said "don't post here trying to make money...yadda yadda".

I have NO IDEA why THAT was the thing that was even thought of from my post(s). HOW would I make any MONEY (???) from talking about a couple of utilities out on one of the manufacturers sites or about a related site...?!?!?! I am soooo totally confused. In addition, I assure you, I promise you, I will NOT gain a penny from any of that work and especially from some utils and I am not even clear exactly how to use.

WHY would he think any of those things and how SHOULD I have posted, or where, or what did I say wrong or ... or ... or.... .... I'm sorry, I don't even know how to say what I am trying to say. Somebody please help. If possible, perhaps someone could CALL me, or directly email me, or....? Something other than posting here. OR post here if that is best. I sure hope someone contacts me directly if possible. I could really use the help. Thanks folks/mods.

Regards, AJ MOD EDIT: PERSONAL INFORMATION REMOVED
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Mod Edit:

Quote removed since post removed.

Yeah, that's good

@at28915 Please take this as an advice from a man to man, Better to keep away from problems so you not get whooped like what happened to me, Also if you don't know - saying a swear word is denied here and it may lead to an infraction, Better to remove that word from your post, i am not threatening you, but advising you.
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
Can everyone that is not a moderator please stop moderating? It might not be so obvious – which is by design – but there's much more to it than throwing some rules around. You might 'just' see a post getting removed, some things edited, or a public announcement left or right, but behind all that there's a team that discusses these matters, there's extended communication with the members involved, and it requires continuous consolidated effort to keep our internal guidelines aligned. Oh, and lots of goofing around, too. If a boundary is crossed or 'forbidden words' are dropped, we'll kindly alert the people involved. If you believe you've spotted such behaviour, there's a beautiful 'Report' button on every post that works marvels. Thank you for keeping that into consideration :)
[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
Isn't the report button so beautiful 😍
[About XDA developers] Spannaa:
Maybe beautiful was the wrong word, but it certainly works if it's used correctly 😉
[About XDA developers] sd_shadow:
See second meaning

beautiful meaning - Google Search
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
I guess you mean "useful"

Oh man it is not the time for being Language teachers rn 🤣 this is a developers site, isn't it ?🙂
[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
Ohhh my gosh the report button is so glamorous!

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[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Yeah with that exclamation mark which makes it more Fascinating 😁
[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
The report button is very fascinating for some reason…
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
TLDR

You've been reported sir!

🤨😳😆
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
That's hilarious now 🤣

A moderator Reports another moderator, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE !!🤣🤣
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
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He's just bluffing but if I press all the right wrong buttons, this can get real ugly, real fast 😬

What were we on about again? Right, the very, very serious topic of 'Requests to Moderators and Admins' ;)
[About XDA developers] khusika:
Sir, it happened to me 🤯

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[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
What did you do to the beautiful report button! 🤣
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Sir, thanks very much for the excellent explanation and heads-up.

This is one of the threads I've subscribed to, and I rather want to be pinged when it indeed requires attention of XDA staff. For this reason, I'm going to move all the off-topic posts that are certainly funny out of here to ??? As I've just returned from a 4 days break I'll still have to look where the posts go.
[About XDA developers] warawn2:
I've always logged into xda forums with my username, but i have been unable to for a couple of months because it asked for my email and not username (don't know email address so read on). I tried today, might have been site or browser update but now when i try to log in i get the following error.

"Incorrect password. Please try again. There is a known issue with certain passwords not being accepted as valid. Please click "Forgot your password" to request a new password.". OK then, it accepts username but I have a character in my password that is not always accepted in some authentication systems so i'm guessing something has changed with authentication. OK then I request new password. Problem is that it asks for the email address but i don't know it. I have had the account since before android and the iphone so it is likely one of many old work emails and i never updated it when i could log in. I don't want to create a new account so how can i log in using my username and password so i can update my email address? I 100% know my password and 100% know my username, but the password has a character that is no longer valid. Many thanks in advance :)
[About XDA developers] V0latyle:
📚 Contact Us / Account Problems & Useful Links

Contact Us details and Useful Links below XDA was founded in 2003 by developers, for developers. - Many of the links and details shown here can also be found in our: About XDA Developers Forum - - Our Forum Rules XDA Forum...

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Not sure how much we can help you without your previous email address.

What is your "old" account name?

You could try 3rd party login using your Facebook, Twitter, or Google account.

@MikeChannon For your attention
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@MikeChannon @the_scotsman

Gentlemen, above for your attention.
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Ok, so yes as said above, we need your old username. Tell us that but don't give your email address here.

Once I know your username I can email you at your new account email address and we can run some checks to get you going again.

Mike
[About XDA developers] AToska21:
Hi! I was looking through my profile the other day and saw that the only carrier listed in the "Albania" section is "Albanian Mobile Comms" (which is a carrier that has been rebranded, thrice.) There are currently only 2 carriers in Albania, One.al (formerly Telekom.al/AMC) and Vodafone AL. Is it possible for these carriers to be added to the profile menu?
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@MikeChannon @the_scotsman

Gentlemen, above for your consideration please.

Personale | Vodafone

Vodafone përdor teknologjinë celulare më moderne duke ofruar shërbime inovatore, oferta te dedikuara si edhe shpejtësinë shumë të lartë të internetit

www.vodafone.al

One Albania

www.one.al
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Ok, in theory those two carriers have been added.

Mike
[About XDA developers] AToska21:
Vodafone AL shows up fine, but I don't see One Telecommunications (the one I use, formerly Telecom AL which was formerly Albanian Mobile Communications)
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Unfortunately I don't appear to have an option to insert a new provider in alphabetical order, so the one you want I've had to add at the bottom of the drop down list of providers... just scroll to the bottom.

Mike
[About XDA developers] AToska21:
oh alright. thank you!
[About XDA developers] SwedishForenger:
Hi, can you create a new thread with the name: WP12 PRO, and move all post between me and PYCON in the WP12 PRO thread please.​

Oukitel WP17 [Root][GSI ARM64 A/B Treble-Enabled]

WP17 is a rugged phone with Infrared Night Vision Camera, Helio G95 8GB+128GB 6.78“FHD+ 90Hz 64MP Triple Camera+16MP Selfie 8300mAh Android 11 Global Version. Bought me a Oukitel WP17, but couldn't find much information about this phone. So...

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[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Hello and good morning, @SwedishForenger

Certainly, I could but I don't understand why I should become owner of such a thread? Why don't you create the thread and in turn request the move of the respective posts?

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] SwedishForenger:
Thanks for your reply.

Yes of course, I'm sorry, I just assumed that as an admin or Moderator you had access to such tools to create threads for me, and move posts directly, since I as a regular user cant move post etc..

I created the thread here:

WP12 PRO Unlocking bootloader / Rooting / GSI

Android 11 Smooth, Fast and Safe Massive 4000mAh Battery Capacity 24 hours of active use 5.5'' HD+ Display Drop and scratch-resistant SONY 13MP Rear Camera Freeze beautiful moments MediaTek Helio A22 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM Supports Reverse Charging...

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[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Good afternoon, @SwedishForenger

Just to be sure that I move the correct post and not to leave it to my guess, could you provide me with the numbers of the posts that are supposed to be moved.

Or do you indeed mean that all of your posts and all of @PYCON's posts in that thread should be moved to the new ones?

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] SwedishForenger:
Thank you.

Yes, move it all. It became clear to me after a while, that it was the WP12 pro he was asking for help on, on my thread on WP17 pro. I will redirect him to the new thread.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Accomplished.

Would you mind to check if I moved the correct ones or missed one?

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] SwedishForenger:
It looks good. the last two entries I had with another user, but it doesn't matter. He now has a dedicated wp12 thread. That way he doesn't have to post his phone on my wp17 thread.

Thank you very much for your patience and help.

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[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Oops... I see... The ones with straightcore. I've moved them back.

Sorry, didn't check the posts content and just went by timeline as we're currently flooded by spam through hijacked accounts. If you haven't enabled 2FA yet, I highly recommend to do so.

Have a great weekend.

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] PYCON:
Thanks @SwedishForenger for the idea and thanks @Oswald Boelcke for the great support.
[About XDA developers] Don Kihoty:
Moto 30 Ultra description has a small error:

Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro

The Motorola Edge 30 Ultra / Motorola Moto X30 Pro features a 6.67" OLED display, with a resolution of 1080x2400 and 144Hz refresh rate. It runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, with 8GB+128/256GB, 12GB+256/512GB. The phone has a 200+12+50MP main camera, with a 60MP selfie shooter, and is...

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"The device is powered by a 4610mAh with 50W fast charging."

This is the right data:

125W wired

50W wireless

10W reverse wireless
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@the_scotsman

Sir, above for your attention.

https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_edge_30_ultra-11206.php
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
@the_scotsman Sir, allow me to bump above. Thanks a lot.
[About XDA developers] the_scotsman:
Fixed :)
[About XDA developers] Clark Joseph Kent:
OK, back to the reg scheduled programming...to the legitimate requests for the Staff, thank you all.

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[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Would really suggest to make an AI moderator to reduce count of spam posts/spammers, I do not mean that the current mods are not good, they are really more than better for XDA, but they also have real life to live. So that means that in a certain time, the mods will be inactive for a while that allows spammers to spam (believe me I have saw a lot of spam posts and saw no one or nearly one mod active at the time I saw the spam posts/ threads.), and may be also hard to filter spam posts hidden between 80 Million posts. So, I think that an AI moderator may save time and effort done to find spam posts/threads and at least that AI mod will be active 24/7.

It Would also be better to test it's functionality for maybe 2 days, or more (as you choose), and if it is doing good, then keep him.

Thanks for every mod, contributor, developer , and for every member here tryna make XDA a great place for android devs and modders.
[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
Sounds like a nice idea such as Reddit has a spam removal bot and other sites.

Finally! No more spam!
[About XDA developers] Badger50:
Well shoot guys! Let's just turn XDA over to "Skynet" and call it good!

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[About XDA developers] blackhawk:
Just give me the button...

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AI? blackhawk be a goner for sure...🤣
[About XDA developers] khusika:
It may seem effective but things are inefficient for moderation, and perhaps the resulting impact of AI will make moderators work twice as hard to correct AI errors.

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[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
All of that because of AI moderation of XDA ?! 💀
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
You will need to train the AI mod for a while, then, test it in a practical test (real tests to check if it detects spam posts/threads) , and if it goes good, then, good, if not then throw that CPU that runs the AI mod into the Garbage.

Hope you approve my request. Thanks !
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
Our salary here hasn't been raised for more than 10 years, so as a compensation please allow me the fun to ban such spammers.

But joke aside: Most of the spammers you mean and currently watch are spam posts by hijacked or hacked accounts. I think we can best distinguish between a hacked account and one solely created for spam purposes. And regarding the first ones, we want the legitimate account owners to have a chance to just reset their passwords, enable 2FA, and to continue to use their accounts again. Some of them have provided highly valuable threads and posts over the years that we want to be still available to the community and not to be deleted even if the account is blocked.
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Well I did not mean that the bot will take over all jobs of you "mods" 😁, it will "reduce" count of spammers/spam posts-threads, it is something like you have got a new moderator. You may also reduce the tempo of the ban rate (spam detection/deletion rate) made from the AI mod so you can find and ban spammers as you like.

Just give it a try :)
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
I'm a big fan of this idea, and I think we all pondered about the idea two years ago, when I constructed the AI mod @OpenAL, that was really just me copy-pasting prompts to and from ChatGPT. Without a human filter, it would've been a terrible experience. There was a lot of rephrasing and manipulating the input.

I've had a few in-depth "conversations" with both ChatGPT and the latest Gemini (paid), but both would not be up to the task of really understanding the difference between a spammer and a joker like @blackhawk

He's not even kidding 👀

Sorry, I just had to :p

Especially, Gemini is so horrendously politically correct, it's infuriating. Try asking it for a router's default password (see below). We have an automated system that catches a lot of junk, but it always needs our human approval before acting upon its findings.

My experiences with Reddit bots haven't been so amazing, either. I have found myself unable to post in subreddits before, because a bot decided my account was malicious. We don't want to present our members with such a frustrating experience. Besides, the human touch has its charm, and we're not complaining. Sure, we have surges of attacks from time to time, but someone has to keep us on our toes, Right? ^_^

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[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
Don't we kinda have better than AI, with the report button and all of the users? Are the mods overrun with handling the spam reports?
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
We may use / make an AI mod made by ourselves, or maybe check this ?

For me I do not see either the normal ChatGPT (3.5) nor Gemini good for moderation mission, also about the political point, the bot should be trained to DELETE any posts related to politics and maybe WARN or BAN the user that posted a political topic (thread/post) ,instead of seeing political posts (replies) made by that AI mod 👍
[About XDA developers] mrjuniork:
Yes, totally. Our Seniors are completely overwhelmed, but that's mostly due to the fact, that they have asked for a senile atrophy bonus payment, in order to cushion the blow of retirement 👍🏻

But the rest of us is of course on top of everything 😁
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
You know that laziness is the priority prerequisite to become a senior moderator? :D
[About XDA developers] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Wow! That's hilarious that AI's security is turned up to 11 so as not to give default router/etc. passwords. But better to err on that side than the other.
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
*Pump*

Well, it is all about training and then testing it, but using other AI models instead of ChatGPT 3.5, and Gemini, oh yeah I forgot to say that Gemini got reported by a lot of users about his way on talking about politics.

Better to try ChatGPT 4-o, or maybe another engine, or as I said before "making our own AI mod" if good choices fails.

If making our own AI mod cannot be achieved (done), then this request may face a denial.
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Yes, even when requesting a source code of a certain app, or a program (even if it's source code is published on GitHub) , it doesn't even give me the link to it :/

But sometimes bots can be fooled 😁

Oh yeah, btw, discussion of a certain decision made by AI mod would be better to happen with a real mod, not with the same AI mod.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
My very personal opinion is to anyway not allow any AI generated posts in our Forums. I fully concur to this statement that I've read here: "Anyone who thinks AI is the ultimate technology overlooks the fact that it ultimately only replicates human shortcomings. Their abilities and limitations reflect our own."

So, if I'm not an AI fanboy why should I support an AI moderator (unless on 1st April)? At the moment this occurs I'll retire; something that some might appreciate.
[About XDA developers] Badger50:
My personal opinion of AI in any form is...

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And that's that!
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Don't know what to say, ok (y)

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[About XDA developers] Lughnasadh:
Currently, are AI generated posts allowed? Just wondering if people should continue reporting them? Haven't seen it mentioned in the rules.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
So, you've made your request or recommendation. Thanks a lot for that. We take it into consideration and we can close it here.
[About XDA developers] Oswald Boelcke:
It's not expressively prohibited by the rules, and like with all the recent spams, which led to this AI mod request, we "manually" evaluate every reported post against the rules and if it "somehow" adds value.

Regards

Oswald Boelcke
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
And thanks for making me laugh today 😂

I was depressed a bit due to the stress of studying and exams, but you made me happy today and cheered me up, thanks ❤️

You will be always the real guardians of XDA, even if AI took over the moderation of XDA. Or the whole moderation team got changed someday.
[About XDA developers] Badger50:
While I can't speak for all Mods, my rule of thumb regarding AI posts is: NO..NO..AND HELL NO! And I usually remove them immediately.

Granted, while there are no formal rules governing AI generated posts, most of the Mods view them in much the same way as asking for "updates and ETA's" for rom or kernel threads. So more or less an unwritten rule if you will.

So yes, please continue to report them 👍👍
[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
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I’ll just stick to asking it stupid auestions.
[About XDA developers] Timmmmaaahh!:
Yeah, I've seen the demos, which always intrigue and creep me out at the same time. The tech is really impressive, but it's still a lot of marketing. It's also expensive and bad for the environment. Such models are licensed and demand a lot of compute power. Puny humans like ourselves just need to be fed some love from time to time. 💖
[About XDA developers] blackhawk:
blackhawk has been accused of being a pernicious, invasive form of AI, mostly by those cindered in flamewars🤣

-//-

What I do notice here on XDA is 99% or more of the spam is from new members.

Senior membership is also gained very easily here, by points alone.

AI isn't needed, better vetting of new members is. This could be in a variety of ways. Many of the productive members here had looked at XDA for months, even years before joining and posting. At least limit posting in some way for the first week... it would reduce the mod workload, maybe.
[About XDA developers] DiamondJohn:
These guys (i am guessing) are a flash in the pan, striking as many forums as they can in the shortest time, so a 24hr delay would probably stop many and maybe a few bots.. But someone who genuinely has a "broken" device would be tormented by a weeks delay. What I have noticed is that MANY are in a non English language, and they also link off / advertise of "University Degrees". Well at least those are the ones that I see are commonly already making it through whatever XDA already has in place.
[About XDA developers] blackhawk:
Those one shot broken device posters are just that. They should wait in my opinion; their convenience doesn't rate letting dozens of spam threads be created for those who do patronize this site.

Those and everything else under the sun🤣
[About XDA developers] ZG_DEV:
Not just this forum gets spammed, but every Xenforo-based Forums.

Check This
[About XDA developers] EllieCat:
I also have noticed support replies with hidden links and those crypto scammers as well. Also, why do they hijack old accounts which creeps me out.
[About XDA developers] _Variable:
I thought its the neighbors wifi acting up :p

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GT-P3100 | Android 4.0.4 ICS | Sun Cellular

PM me if you need help
[About XDA developers] Ciusepp:
Thank you KidCarter I'll give it a try...:fingers-crossed:
[About XDA developers] Jonny:
Spotted a "bug" here >>> http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2099

The General and Q&A forum titles are the wrong way round though the forum description is correct...
[About XDA developers] ivangotoy:
The forum page design is broken when viewed under Chromium browser 25 and 26, windows and linux versions.
[About XDA developers] gandharva:
Same here. Using latest Firefox Nightly. I also can confirm for Chrome.
[About XDA developers] troun2000:
Hello,

I would like to edit my post (especially title), but I am not allowed to do it.

Thanks
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
What happens when you click on EDIT/DELETE?
[About XDA developers] troun2000:
When I click 'edit' then 'go advanced' I have following message;
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Ok, I'll notify admin
[About XDA developers] MikeChannon:
Hi

That sounds like the error you get when something is getting stopped by the Spam filter. Pinning down exactly what is not easy as it might be a single word or a combination of words. The filter also considers things like if you have lots of url links etc.

You can PM me the thread title you want and I'll see if I can get it to accept it.

Mike