[LG G Pad 7 Questions & Answers] PRichardson:
Device-specific Forums Exclusively for GPad 7" ONLY

[MENTION=6568535]mefurst[/MENTION] & [MENTION=6089420]schwem[/MENTION] :highfive: Thank you both for some excellent ideas and feedback on this issue.

-> fixed (thanks again, glad you understand, and I'll be more careful when quoting others in the future).

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Again, I don't want to offend anyone here (certainly not the user I sympathize with, but really, not even the mod for this forum, to whom I am really appealing here). I'm merely interpreting the data I've observed in the analytics (top of threads, where you see the ratio of page views to posts). For instance, if you scroll through a device forum area that never had this problem of not having it's own individual device specific forum and threads, then you rarely see a ratio as high as 150,000 page views, to just a few hundred posts. What that seems to indicate to me, is lots of people SEARCHING, then giving up and leaving, without a clear place to post. If you then do searches which filter by device type, you can then also clearly establish the case that the majority of posts relate to one specific device (the GPad 7) in those same threads. If this isn't strong evidence to support the need for a clear, unmuddied area for people to post useful, helpful resources, or to receive useful desperately needed help, then I'm not exactly sure any argument would ever be strong enough, in which case such decisions would obviously be at the whim and whimsey of the keymaster.

The above excellent points that schwem makes, are more general arguments I agree with, but which would require numerous searches for keywords (such as "brick" and "bootloop") to validate. However, my general impression is that his points are valid as well, even without having done those validations. When a fairly new user, who otherwise enjoys writing java or other code bricks a device, and it's at least partially to blame for a task that actually only requires a few seconds of a moderators time, but will save thousands of countless hours of confusion, anguish and possibly expensive device replacements, then I would not expect that user to have a very good impression of that website and/or organization.

Although there is a synergy when devices that are in the same family have enough proximity to each other's information resources, that serendipitous breakthroughs (such as a new root method), might carry-over, I do not think it is a linear relationship, and should not be considered incorruptible by other factors, such as those schwem mentions, but also those more easily determined, such as hundreds of thousands of people just attempting to FIND information they need, or where to share it. If they are then unable to find that location, they will eventually leave this site entirely, which would probably not be an objective that XDA prefers, particularly for skilled DEVs, but also for the general public, who pays the bills (via ad-revenue and click-through).

If you examine the two screen caps I've merged into one image (and embedded below), you will begin to see the exact point I've made here:

VIEW/POST - is related to, but not equal to - SEEKING>LEAVING/SEEKING>FINDING

43,899 / 6,302 = 6.96 VIEWS/POST (LG G3, which has its own forum)

142,529 / 1,352 = 105.4 VIEWS/POST (Gpad 7", mixed device area, main thread)

As part of my own initial request for a device-specific forum for the GPad 7 exclusively, I included basic analytics info based on searches I performed for keywords, and offered a more detailed report supporting my case, but there was no interest by the mod who responded.

At this point, I have no explanation for the continued lack of our own forum area, but I would expect that if enough people continue to post requests through the officially provided forum for that (linked in my signature), then they will eventually provide one for that. Of course, I could completely and totally wrong in some of my assumptions here posted, and I would like to keep an open mind.

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