[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] At0mAng:
Wow...first time I read an entire thread that is more than 5 or so pages. Many different thoughts on how to improve the board.

I think the biggest problem is that there is so much good information in these forums but it is so hard to find and not organized too well. Maybe a bit more organization would help. A FAQ for each sub-forum would be good or even an how to guide for accepted protocol on these forums. A better seach engine, Chefs allowed to mod their own threads, a ToS that is more clear on how to conduct oneself on these boards and a few more great ideas that were mentioned so far could go a long way to cut down on these probelms.

Also some of the mods and long time users can be a bit more friendly to new people. Let's not forget that we were all noobs at one time. Some of us may have had more expierence with forums before we came here, some of us might be a bit more tech savy but that does not mean everyone is like that. A few people had good examples of how WinMo is becoming more mainstream and more than power users are coming here. If someone asks a stupid question (I am sure we all have, I know I have) instead of trashing them or making a stupid ass post like USE THE SEARCH NOOB maybe an answer can be given along with a suggestion to use the search and to look around before asking a question that may have already been asked. The last thing anyone should do is to deter a user from coming back. I even had a mod make a ridiculous post in my ROM thread about how "no more pointless posts in this thread" what was the point of that when every post was valid? Look at all the pointless posts in this thread...Obviously I was just getting the hang of cooking and posted my first ROM so there are bound to be problems...

Anways...users of this forum and mods can no way control how anyone is going to use these forums. The best we can do is show them the acceptable way and maybe if they stick around they can pass it along to newer members.

When I first attempted to create ROMs I searched, read a billion different threads and still had problems. If it wasn't for the kind people like NATF, sakajati, aruppenthal, pfcsabre and a few others I may have given up and not got into it all. They were all cool enough to answer my private messages and help me figure out how to modify ROMs. As my ROMs are being used more and I am getting a lot more private messages I am more than willing to help others because of that.

If there is anything I can do to help change whatever needs to be changed on in this forum just let me know and I will do what I can. I got a lot out of them and don't mind at all giving back.

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Something else I just thought of but it may not go well with the owners of XDA is to make each page of the forums display more threads by default so there could be more stickied threads that cover the basic topics where all these repeat questions come from. I am guessing most people will not click through more than a few pages or even past the first one before they give up their search and post one of those silly questions...The top threads are about Radio, Unlocking, Hard_SPL, Useful links, a ROM, flashing your first ROM and don't start a new thread. Why not have stickied topics that cover more topics like about keyboards, cooking, why is the flashing program setting off my antivirus and whatever else . MrVanx's Read Before Your Post Announcement has a lot less views than many other threads...I know about the other factors that give other threads more views but if people were reading it then there wouldn't be a problem of some many redundant questions. Chefs can take this approach too and maybe have a bug list posted above the download links to their ROMs that they can keep updating instead of being asked the same questions. With help of the users of the ROM and who frequent the threads they can just answer with a standard reply of check first post of the thread for your answer. After awhile it has to catch on unless some people are that (insert your own adjective here).