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[About XDA developers] egzthunder1:
Ok, I am only quoting this post because I deleted your previous one where you ranted against a certain comment made (you know which one, so I will not go into details here).

Believe it or not, one of the original OT-allowed-moderator-backed threads was actually my decision during the Hero days. Because of the constant amount of garbage that was happening in that forum (aka the Great Hero Wars), it was requested during a town hall meeting, and it was granted as a small area to blow off steam. So, this entire thing actually goes back a few years. Having said this, I will cut that point in here because this is not and was never the main objective of your post....

Moderation is a very complex beast on a site this big. We, whether you like it or not, cannot (and will not) moderate in a black and white fashion simply because each individual case is different, period. Granted there are some things that could be compared to a boilerplate rule and solved with a simple "yes, it follows guidelines" or a "no, kill it with fire", and the ones that can be acted upon like this, are treated in this fashion. When we train and recruit moderators, we do not recruit/train robots that will follow a rule book down to the "T". What we do is to try and teach them the basis, the spirit of the site, and ensure that they all have common sense when acting on something (all within their realm of understanding, of course) and to come to us (SM and admins) in case they have doubts.

Just going onto one of your examples (and to really illustrate my point above), you mentioned that porting roms was not to be considered android development simply because all it takes is for someone with a pc to pass the stock through dsi's kitchen and boom. Well, I know that you were talking about specifically about the Note 2 since the hw between most/all versions is the same. However, lets assume that a new mod from the HTC forums comes in here and reads your comment... next thing you know, you, a RD, just fed him a statement in black and white, which he will now use as a boilerplate template for actioning on ports. I am not sure how much experience you have on porting, but I can tell you that porting things for other brands/devices is not as simple as you make it seem. Take home message on this example... can you treat all ports for all devices the same way? Absolutely, positively no. What happens here? You have, what is perceived from the outside, as inconsistency in moderation. Why? Because you will have mods from the HTC forums treating ports in a different way than those of the Samsung forums...

All areas of the site require different amounts of TLC and in different forms more often than not, which is why we have to act different in different areas sometimes in order to maintain peace. We standardize what we can (like the banning policy being one of the best examples I can think of), but unfortunately, we cannot standardize everything due to different crowds requiring different things.
[About XDA developers] egzthunder1:
Well, it is very simple... moderators are on the defensive because they are being told that they are being inconsistent in the way they do their job... I know it is feedback, but don't expect that sugar coating a complain under the veil of feedback is going to make it have less of an impact on the receiving end.

In other words, calling someone an 4$$4073 and then coming out and saying "I don't mean to be rude" doesn't make you any less rude....
[About XDA developers] undercover:
I think it just unnecessarily escalated to what it is now.

Here's a suggestion. Let's start from scratch.

I shall start it.

Dear mods, inconsisncy has been noticed in handling allowed number of off topic threads in device forums. Can something be done about it and will you do anything about it?

Sent from my fridge. Make:LG Model:N4
[About XDA developers] gaurika:
Guys, did any of you got into following problem: accessing xda from any computer in my office (behind same IP) is showing only something that looks like mobile version of the website (looking garbled on PC browser, anyhow). No matter what computer, operating system, browser, if I'm logged in or not.

Now I'm posting from my office computer, but I was able to see the "normal" / full desktop version only after connecting to my home VPN.

Clearing cache on browser did not help (and I don't think it's the problem, as I'm posting from the same browser session (Firefox), opened before VPN (I still have some instances of garbled xda opened, see below an example).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pjb5n9xvkj96u6y/xda.PNG?dl=0

Any idea?

Thanks!
[About XDA developers] orangekid:
that happens to me very rarely, when the site is really slow due to some server update or something.

Try it now and it should be fine.
[About XDA developers] gaurika:
yes, now is working also from my office IP, but for the last 30 minutes or so it was not, and only from behind this IP (i've tested some other 9-10 public IP's, and they were all working ok).

Spooky!

Thanks, orangekid! ;)
[About XDA developers] siealex:
Something happened wrong with the XDA 2015 style. The dark variant works fine (and all other styles too), but the white one looks like it can't find one of its css files. WTF?
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
It would be appreciated to be able to modify our rating of threads we have already marked.
[About XDA developers] -vpa:
I have same problem in Chrome and Firefox too, but, when I'm using Chrome in anonymous, I have no problem with XDA 2015 style. When I tried IE, no problem too.
[About XDA developers] Neo:
Our rating system is like voting... You can't change a vote ;)
[About XDA developers] v7:
Is there anyway I can see who all voted in the Poll of my thread.

I hadn't enabled that option while creating the poll.Is there a way to change it?

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[About XDA developers] Neo:
Not to my knowledge.. In order to view those who voted in a poll, you would have had to set it up that way from the start. It may be possible to have an admin modify your poll but I am unsure.
[About XDA developers] v7:
May I know whom should I contact for help?

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
MikeChannon ;)
[About XDA developers] Neo:
I will put in the request for you. Please send me a PM with the specifics. Thanks
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
Only fools never change their minds ;)
[About XDA developers] v7:
PM sent.

Thanks for your help :)

Tapped from my furious dogo ;)
[About XDA developers] siealex:
Yes, no problem in Edge and in incognito mode in Chrome...
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Post #1000

Hello.

This Page does force me, to use the new XDA 2015 Style. None of the 2013-Styles do work with it.

But in my opinion, XDA 2010 and 2013 looked nicer than XDA 2015.

My Question: What is so special about the linked thread, which only allows me to display it with XDA 2015? (Or 2015-Black)
[About XDA developers] Neo:
It appears to be marked as a Question thread which has a new style where you can vote up or vote down posts. That is a feature that currently is not part of the 2010-2013 themes.
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Thank you for answering :)

I see.

Too bad :(
[About XDA developers] nkk71:
As all, sometimes I like change, sometimes not too much... due to the screen size, I still use the "XDA 2013 Beta - 1024" theme

the new features are a good thing, and probably most people use large displays, nowadays, but for me:

here's the 2013-1024 theme:

and the 2015 theme:

perhaps just "old habits", perhaps personal preference, but the sidebar (which has always been nice) should be collapsible, imho

just my personal thoughts, keep up the goodies :good:
[About XDA developers] CDB-Man:
Repost from here, thanks to [MENTION=5981373]NOOK!E[/MENTION] for pointing that out.

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Did a quick search of the About XDA subforum, and didn't notice anything that directly addressed this question already.

So I know that on the main User CP page http://xdaforums.com/usercp.php it shows "New Subscribed Threads", a listing of subscribed threads with new posts.

And of course, you can also view these on the Subscribed Threads folder listing, too: http://xdaforums.com/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription&folderid=all

Could this be added to the "notifications" dropdown at the topright of the screen? As in, the notification dropdown beside the logout button on the header. Show the # of new subscribed threads there, and link to the subscribed threads folder when clicked.

I often miss posts in my subscribed threads because it's not one of the things you get notified on in the notifications dropdown. I also don't want to have my inbox spammed, so I disabled all email notifications for subscribed forums.
[About XDA developers] RenaKunisaki:
Suggestion: be able to view our PMs as a thread. When PMing back and forth with someone it's a pain to keep track of the individual messages, especially when your own replies are listed in a different folder. I wish it just showed like a normal forum thread.
[About XDA developers] PalmCentro:
Something is wrong with XDA.. very slow now.
[About XDA developers] Fallen Spartan:
Yes, we are/were aware of this...... Should be fixed now

...........................

You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think! XDA, mobile wisdom, not a n00b feeding ground!!
[About XDA developers] No-New-Phone:
Dear xda-teamer,

it would really be great to see a better "advanced search" page. The "only search in Forum"-section is absolutely not usable. It should either be in alphabetical order or it should be itself searchable, so that someone searching something for a specific device will find it easier.

Cheers!
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
There is also the "Find Your Device" option, and once at that forum, you can search those forums. To say that it's absolutely unusable isn't a fair assessment, it's totally usable given you have the desire to continue looking and use the proper search terms. :good:
[About XDA developers] No-New-Phone:
Sorry, I don't want to sound offensive.

Now again with peace and love and lots of sugar on top:

It's NOT that the site is unusable, it is ONLY the "search forums" section in advanced search page. It contains, I don't know, at least 1000 lines in non alphabetical order. Neither it's a manufacturer order.

There might be workarounds, though.

Still, if you can live with it the way it is, don't change it. It's just ment to be a suggestion. Maybe it's just me not knowing that f.x. Galaxy Note gt n7000 is line 682.
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
This section?

Start typing in what you're looking for and it narrows the list exponentially :good:
[About XDA developers] No-New-Phone:
Wow, that look's different on my chromium browser. I've testet it, but as soon as I start typing, it just jumps to the next line starting with these letters. It looks like this (see attachment).
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
Hmm, maybe try Firefox or Chrome. It's possible that the browser you're using isn't allowing something to process properly.
[About XDA developers] webworker01:
It should now look the same in all browsers/forum themes :D Thanks for the report :highfive:
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
I don't know if this is new but when I try to answer/comment (2 options really???) in a thread marked as Q&A (example) I can't upload a picture. I have to post my answer then edit and upload it.
[About XDA developers] NOSTALGIA:
it seems not to be fixed.. still very slow on my end.. other webpages loads fast.
[About XDA developers] NOSTALGIA:
xda is fast now. i can now confirm it
[About XDA developers] Romanistahm:
Pleaseeee stop this 10 massage rull, I have to spend 40 minuets to write 10 comments OMG
[About XDA developers] nkk71:
just a thought, but it would help a lot (in my humble opinion), to have an "easy" way to mark a [Q&A] thread as

[SOLVED]

[HARDWARE PROBLEM]

[discontinued]

[stale]

etc; whatever you term(s) see fit

soooooooooooo many threads remain "open", in the Q&A sections, whether they've been fixed, solved, not-solvable, or whatever else you can imagine.... and obviously very few people actually:
[About XDA developers] :
Any way this was made easier would still require the OP to actually do it.

Need I say more? ;)

Cheers,

Darth
[About XDA developers] nkk71:
Quite true,

but at some point I have had to go more than a few posts, just to get people to edit the title, hence the copy/paste:

Two reasons (at least), I was/am suggesting it:

1- someone actually searching/looking, would be more encouraged to look (hopefully even read) through a "clearly titled thread" (yeah, not many of those) which is marked solved / fixed / or whatever term is more suitable

2- the people who are actually reading some of the Q&As, dont need to go 21 pages, to find out the phone was in the water too long, and therefore not fixable [WATER DAMAGE] :p

just a thought :)
[About XDA developers] :
I completely agree that it's a great idea... And would be nice to see in Q&A sections. But I just don't think most would take advantage of it. No matter how easy it was to do.

I am curious though who or why this is being asked of people to do? It's not mandatory. It's nice, but not a requirement here.

We can't ask or make people do this. ;)
[About XDA developers] nkk71:
oh sorry, nobody asks or makes them do it... it's an old habit of mine, whenever i/we helped a member in the Q&A sections and (s)he got it fixed, i would post that, "if you can mark it solved"

some unfortunately were bad hardware, or other kinds of bricks, never asked them to "rephrase" the thread, but an open thread (imho), is open
[About XDA developers] :
Well Admin will see your idea here. :)

As I said, it's not a bad idea at all. Just might not be utilized, since it can be done now, and generally isn't.
[About XDA developers] nkk71:
oh definitely not, can't handle it :angel:

Considering, the amount of "new' members (i'm not discouraging it, on the contrary!) ... just like me (I didnt know where to post what... not to mention the 10post rule didnt apply back then)

perhaps it's something to be considered.

I know you've implemented up-voting (not sure how I feel about that at the moment :o)

but this is just a plain and simple recommendation... is it feasible or not, will it be used or not.... i cannot answer, it's a simple thought

wish you a good a week, as Monday is about to start ...
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
I'm unable to send a bug report through the official form: http://www.xda-developers.com/contact/#technical

After hitting the "send" button the page is loading again & again.

It was to report the following:

I can't use the search feature: http://xdaforums.com/search.php

"An error occurred while performing a Searchlight query:

connection to 10.0.100.17:9312 failed (errno=111, msg=Connection refused)"
[About XDA developers] v7:
+1 for search issue.

I had reported this to Mike.He said it'll take time to rebuild the search database.It'll be fixed :thumbup:

Tapped from my ❶+❷ ;)
[About XDA developers] Neo:
Try again. It appears to be working now (for me at least)

Regards,

Neo

Senior Moderator
[About XDA developers] Primokorn:
Exactly. Good news
[About XDA developers] v7:
It works now :)

Tapped from my ❶+❷ ;)
[About XDA developers] stuccamelo:
Hi, can open a new official forum thread for Lenovo Vibe Shot z90-7/z90-3/z90a40 like that:

http://www.androidiani.com/forum/le...hread-ufficiale-lenovo-vibe-shot-z90-7-a.html

It 's a very good device but laks of support by developers.

On xda there is only two threads on a roms not developed anymore:

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/lenovo-z90-7-vibe-shot-root-gapps-t3145793

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/lenovo-z90-7-vibe-shot-international-t3148018

thank you !

I've tried to post through the official form: http://www.xda-developers.com/contact/

without success, hitting the "send" button the page is loading again & again.
[About XDA developers] v7:
Post here.

Tapped from my ❶+❷ ;)
[About XDA developers] edan1979:
Dear mod.

Can you do something to all the only +1 post. it getting annoying nowadays when you subscribe to a topic and we got a notification for those +1 post.
[About XDA developers] NOSTALGIA:
there hasnt been a rule for not allowing the +1 posts.. maybe xda can implement a 10 word post rule if possible.. just my 2 cents
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
Is it a global setting that users can thank 8 times or day or is that setting enabled just for me?

I like to drop thanks on every good message that truly deserves it, i'm really addicted to grind the XDA Apps discussions and thank all apps developers which i think they deserve it.
[About XDA developers] efrant:
It is a global setting. While we understand that there are many developers you'd like to thank, the setting was put in place to prevent "thanks" from being given out indiscriminately, and thus completely devaluing the point of even having a "thanks" count.
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
Okay thanks for clarifying
[About XDA developers] Apache0c:
Hi, I asked this in XDA Assist and was directed here.

Is there a way to see all threads of a forum and it's subforms on one page?

An example would be, I'm looking at the Hauwei Nexus 6P forum and I'm presented with a page of sub forums like Q&A, General, Android Development and so on... However, I'm very interested in the new topics on this device so I would like to be able to scroll through all of the newest active threads on one page.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
Make the ranks different

Start rank is: Junior member

10+ posts makes you a member

500+ posts and 250+ thanks makes you a senior member.

Better right?
[About XDA developers] :
Well, people already thanks farm... And it's not an important stat. Sure, it's nice to see appreciation in number form.... But it's not a competition. ;)

Making it a stat that earns a member anything would just escalate the farming. :eek:
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
I actually mean that people won't use the OT forums to gain senior member rank.

I think people need to make contributions before getting recoqnized as a senior member
[About XDA developers] v7:
They are 'senior' in the fact that they've read a bit and has replied/posted atleast a 100 times.I think the current setup is fine :)

Tapped from my ❶+❷ ;)
[About XDA developers] bharat g:
The Google + Signin link is almost always invisible. I see it only after searching for a thread/post in the search results page.

Please fix it..
[About XDA developers] ems328i:
Delete
[About XDA developers] Hannah Stern:
Well, i do still see it.

Try refreshing your page or using a different Browser.
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
Alot of General sections and Q&A sections are filled with unknown devices mega threads and other unsorted stuff.

Is there a possibilty to make one forum for all chinese unsorted phones? This way i can other people can finally answer questions again the easy way.

It's just a mess right now
[About XDA developers] :
There shouldn't be questions in the general sections. We patrol general sections, but you can report any questions you see there and we'll move them. If you're looking to help people, the Q&A section is the place to contribute. ;)

And the general section is being used as its intended for... Devices with no section of their own. So it's being used for exactly what it was meant for. And the Mega threads are good... One thread is always better than 20 separate ones. :)

A separate section for unbranded devices would be redundant. That's what the general and general Q&A sections are already for. :good:
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
I mean that the Mega threads are okay if they would be used properly.

People should ask there device related questions in their own device related Q&A section and if there is no forum for it than they should ask their questions in the dedicated mega threads not in the general Q&A because it is really grinding to find general questions which includes a question to all devices in general.
[About XDA developers] :
Again... Individual question threads don't belong in the general sections. They'll be moved to Q&A when we see them, or they're reported.

We can't force anyone to use the mega threads... But their question thread should be in Q&A. Not general.

And we do move questions that are in the general section to device specific Q&A sections when we find them. But if they post their device question in general or Android Q&A sections... We don't track those as much. Mostly our goal is to move all questions from the General section. I patrol General myself about every other day and clear out question threads... As do other Moderators.

By all means, if you see things in General, or Android General that shouldn't be there... Hit report. :)

But moving questions from the q&a section, that have specific device sections is simply too big a task for our team. But giving those people a link to their device section is a nice gesture. ;)

Hope that helps explain our mission better? :good:
[About XDA developers] efrant:
I believe you are referring to the mega-threads in this section, correct?

Yes, you are right: users should be asking device-specific questions in the respective device forum Q&A sections.

If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting having a separate forum for all unbranded Chinese devices. The original intention of that General section you are referring to was supposed to be for exactly that purpose -- threads that do not fit into device-specific forums or any of the other forums. I suppose that is why it appears disorganized.

I will pass your comments on to the admins.
[About XDA developers] :
Yup. That was my meaning as well. Us mods in that section routinely patrol "General"... And we move any question threads to" Q&A", "Android Q&A", or device Q&A sections if applicable.

As [MENTION=1566190]efrant[/MENTION] said, that General section is for any device without its own section. So yes, it's going to be messy. The Mega threads are good... But if someone prefers to create their own thread for help, that's their choice. As poor a choice as that may be, because fellow device owners are in the mega threads... Hence quicker response.

But those questions so should be in "Q&A" or Android Q&A, or any appropriate area... But not General. General sections everywhere are for info, guides, roms occasionally... Etc... Never for questions.

:)
[About XDA developers] Elya_Dragon:
[MENTION=1566190]efrant[/MENTION] in the past general was full of nice Android news discussions and mods and betas regarding all devices, now it became a trash bin where alot of random phones are discussed.

The thing is:

I decided to leave the XDA general section and moved on to android general section but it's totally the same there.

Is there no way that we can have 1 general section from the two i mentioned for unbranded phones and 1 for real general activity?

[MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION] i also believe that it would have been better to let people ask their questions in mega threads since that is their best chance on a good reply as it's their audience.

I see alot of unanswered threads in general section and Q&A too.
[About XDA developers] Stryke_the_Orc:
This tends to happen when the influx of new users isn't sure where to post, hence the creation of XDA Assist. Unfortunately, not everyone utilizes, or even knows about, this initiative. The best way to make the forums a tidier place is to help direct users to where they should be posting, report misplaced threads and teach new members how to navigate and use the forums. Simply coming here and suggesting another place to dump all the misplaced items is not a solution, it's like "cleaning" a room by closing the door so you don't have to see the mess. Nothing changes, you've just created more space for the "trash bin" to overflow into.