Hey all, I have 2 invites to give away for 64 gb Sandstone models.
I've gotten so much from this community I want to share these with you all as a small token of my appreciation and as a way to help give SOMETHING back to the members of XDA.
PM me with your request, the first PM I get gets one, and the 2nd one will go to the person with the funniest PM. (tell a joke, a story, or just be generally hilarious.
I'll make my decision in the next 2 hours (at the time of this post) so after that point, don't bother PM'ing.
Responses to this thread do NOT count as PM's for consideration for a request.
Thank you and have a great day!
(P.S. these invites are good for another 96 hours)
Alright, first one is gone, who's gonna get #2?
Need one!! ?
There's a dedicated thread where allot of people are currently posting their available invites without requiring people to send them jokes, funny images... etc...
Please don't turn this forum into the childish place the Oneplus forum is.
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**UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST***
**PLEASE , GIVE 3 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO READ THIS AND POST IF POSSIBLE**
Hey guys and gals. TweakMan here. Thanks for stopping in. First off , let me apologize for opening this thread. I am totally against opening any thread in the Development & Hacking section unless you are contributing, but this is my only option. So please read on, and show your support for XDA. It will only take a minute to read this, and decide. It takes less to post and show your support.
I opened the "General PPC Questions" thread at the top of this page almost 2 months ago. When I first opened this thread, I believed it would only have 10 to 20 posts max. Now , it has grown into a size I never believed. The amount of support everyone has showed for there fellow PPC users, is amazing!!
This one thread alone has helped answer over 150 questions! It has stopped almost 250 new threads from being opened for a simple question. It's done it's job, and I believe its served this site well!! I am in no way trying to take sole credit for this. All I did was open the thread. It is you amazing people that keep this thread alive and working.
I spend at least 2 to 4 hours a day trying to keep the "Answered & Unanswered Boards" updated, for easier use. But there are still maybe 20% of the original amount of new threads being opened. And I believe I have a solution.
I would really like to see a new section opened in this forum. General Questions. I would be willing to do all of the work, and put the same amount of time and more into it. There are a few features that would help this work. First, in the section, open only 5 threads at the beginning. Software Questions, Theme Questions, PPC Questions, Smartphone Questions, and Other Questions.
Also, and most importantly, make the entire section locked. This should be the only 5 threads that are able to be opened. This makes sure that the section isn't overrun with new threads everyday, making it impossbile to keep organized.
I have a lot of ideas that will make this work. And I promise you if you show your support here I will do my best to make it work as well as and better as the General Questions Thread. But I need your support to even get the moderators to consider this.
When I first posted the idea for the General PPC Question thread, I was flamed and told that it would never work. Look at how well it has done. There are over 300 users that are currently using this thread, with better results than any other site I've seen like this. So this goes out to all of you. Especially the users that use this thread for help. Give me one minute of you time and post a reply here showing you support this idea.
**IF YOU DO NOT SUPPORT THIS, PLEASE DO NOT POST HERE, THIS IS TO HELP XDA. THERE SHOULD BE NOT REASON TO CRITICIZE FOR THAT*******
**LOOK HOW MUCH WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITH 1 THREAD!!!!!! PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT !!!
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Hey guys. Just giving you an update on the progress of our work here. I just sent the letter to the administrator of the forum, and am now in a waiting game to hear a response.
But until then , I hope you keep showing your support. Also, there are now at least 4 mods supporting this.
Thank you all for your support in this , and the already existing thread. Without you all, each and every one, this wouldn't even be a dream, and the other thread would have already crashed and burned.
And last but not least, Thanks for the ideas. Your guys ideas are what make the already existing thread work. I hope that it happens so that all of our ideas can continue to help clean up this site, and gain our once loved search function back to full capacity !! LOL
So keep the support coming guys. There are over 400 users that use the Questions thread. I hope that you all can return the favor, and show your support here for something that has helped you. This isn't for me, it's always been for XDA.
I will update you as soon as I hear back from the admin.
Keep your fingers crossed and keep showing the love for XDA!!!!
**ALL NEW UPDATES WILL BE POSTED IN THE SECOND POST FROM NOW ON**
RESERVED
This is reserved to update you on how this project is going.
**PLEASE GIVE 1 MINUTE OF YOUR TIME TO POST. IM SURE YOU'VE READ ALOT MORE USLESS THINGS HERE BEFORE. THIS HELPS XDA!!!************
Voted +1.
(What? we can't all have long threads )
Voted +2
its a great idea..im too getting annoyed by new post here and there..
Voted +3
great idea
An Alternative Suggestion
Tweakman,
Instead of implementing your suggestion why don't we create another forum called, say, "Development & Hacking Professional".
This new forum would be locked to all except those who had an application or development to submit. For an author to place his/her item in this new forum he/she would first have to submit their item to a moderator. If it passes the test then the moderator opens a thread in the new forum for that item.
All questions, etc, would be placed in the current Dev & Hacking forum which would, de facto, become the Questions & Answers forum you are seeking to create. The moderators could, over time, move development items already in the current Dev & Hacking forum into the new forum.
To make this work effectively, all developers would have to setup a wiki page for their development. Any valuable hints and tips, registry changes, tweaks, etc, would go into that wiki page as support for the developed item.
The upshot of all this is that if you wanted to find a developed application you search in the new Dev & Hacking Professional forum. If you want support you search the relevant wiki pages.
Searches become simple and fast, support is there without the developers being innundated with crap, and we all live happily ever after.
Just my penny's worth.
WB
PS: BTW, what I am suggesting is not difficult. We did something similar for Schaps when he was developing his roms and getting threads 1000 posts long, most asking the same question that had been answered only 2 posts up if people had bothered to read!
To reduce the support overhead on Schaps, myself and another user put together wiki pages for Schaps as a support and reference point and it worked! You still got the lazy fools posting already answered questions in the main thread; however the wiki page fast tracked any search for solutions to known problems, etc.
It can be done if there is the will by all to make this work.
Give me Moderator status and I will be more than happy to put some legwork in to make this happen.
Good idea tweakman. you have my vote.
@wacky
IMHO doing it your way sounds to me as damage control, while Tweakman's idea is (or should) target the root of the problem...
I do like the wiki idea though
on a side note i'd also like to see a "software request" section,
+1 vote... good idea
I posted a thread about this awhile back, I support this idea
THANKS
Thanks guys !! I wish as many that used the thead would give one min of there time for somethin thats helped so many. I am sending a request to the administrator in the morning, and alread have support from several mods. LETS KEEP TRYIN, IM ONLY DOING THIS TO HELP!!!!!! WEVE COME A LONG WAY WITH ONLY 1 THREAD!!! Almost 400 posts in 2 months!!!!
Yup, I support you too.
UPDATE
Thanks guys! Im sending a request to the administrator in the morning under recommendation from several mods, and those mods, are supporting us as well guys!!!!
So keep your fingers crossed and show the love you have for XDA!!! Simply post a quick reply sayin I SUPPORT THIS!!!
**LOOK HOW MUCH WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITH 1 THREAD!!!!! SHOW YOUR SUPPORT !!!
keep it rocks
Count my vote
good idea, fully support this.
it would tidy the entire forum cos when you think zbout it a lot of the questions posted in the devices threads relate to more than one phone
+vote
D&H definitely needs cleanup.
EDIT: One more idea: what about creating a Themes/skins development section?
Great Idea!
You have my vote
I have seen so many noob's get flamed, and probably scared off the site forever, for asking simple questions that deserve to have a place to be answered.
Any member that dedicates posts to shaming someone, for what they post, should slap themselves. To those members; you were all noobs once, and now you've graduated to become full fledged ASSHOLES! Pull the stick out of your ass and get a real hobby. This is not your private club, and you definately do not look cool when you do **** like that.
XDA is a community for users of EVERY level. Cut new people some slack, quit playing little social exclusion games, and help someone out every now and then. As they grow in knowledge and understanding, they will treat others, on this site, the same way they were treated when they were beginners.
I THINK A GENERAL QUESTIONS SECTION IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA...NO JERKS ALLOWED!
One More
Good idea.
Not sure the post suggesting that a 'Development & Hacking Professional' thread is opened is a good idea though - we are trying to consolidate the information into one place, not spread it more thinly.
+1 from me!
+ 1
Ciao, Andrea
Hello everyone,
I'm sure many of you have been frustrated with having to answer the same questions 39 times in any given ROM/Kernel thread, or at least have had to read through people asking & answering the same questions over and over.
Or maybe you've had to read the past 85 posts in a thread, b/c you missed 2-3 days of action b/c you were busy, just to keep up, so you could save face, and not ask a question that was already answered.
Or maybe you just like helping out, and keeping threads clean.
Well, I'm trying to get some momentum requesting that the Devs enable the in-thread Wiki post. It's a post that shows up after the OP that allows anyone to edit/update content. Better than an external Wiki...b/c it's RIGHT after the OP & our MODs won't have to waste time updating their OPs over and over...we can do it for them, AND we can save everyone time.
If you like this idea, please respond to my post here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21592127#post21592127
Just trying to save some headache and trim down the post count in some of our eternally long and monotonous threads.
Ciao-time
how do we know that xdas forum code is able to include this?
Not only that but the people that repost the same questions over and over are the people that don't read the OP anyways... imo it might cut down on a couple dumb/repetitive posts, but not many...
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Hi there, all you guys and moderators.
I can't help my self from posting this...being frustrated and a wee bit disappointed!
I can't for the life of me see, nor understand, the "rule" for a new member of this forum, being prohibited to comment and/or post anything elsewhere then to the "approved" threads before making any post anywhere else! And mind you, you've got to produce ten (10) posts before being able to share your experiences and/or thoughts to anyone, such as the ROM-provider or a noob searching a answer...
And yes, I'm a noob..to you. Being a freshman at this forum doesn't necessarily mean I'm a noob at what I'm doing
With this post I want to share my thoughts around the posting rules here...and it triggers a flashback memory from when I worked as a consultant programmer at a BIG Swedish company and one of the other consultants asks me why they never saw me at the hours of extended hours at work, since the wast majority of consultants were there...well...my reply was: Why should I do extended working hours when I'm capable of finishing my work on a daily basis, working 9 to 5? I did not ever got an answer! My answer was to show that overtime hours didn't necessarily equals efficiency...
Get the drift don't you ? What I'm getting at is that it seems to me that quantity matters more than quality within this forum...and that conclusion doesn't feel nice at all!
I once upon a lullaby joined MS beta tester program...no one ever at MS had questioned the number of feedback experiences from the software/OS's that they have sent me...I'm living in the belief that MS actually took a look at the feedback provided and discovered that this guy probably got some experience, skills and interests for us to learn from...this said, not to express myself as a number one person to listen to, but as a noob within this forum, frustrated and PO'd.
Question that still lingers on: Why does quantity matters more than quality?
The minimum of 10 posts is before you can post in development fora.
You shouldn't be posting in development fora unless you're releasing something you developed anyways... Unless you're trying to offer feedback in a thread that already exists there.
The idea about not letting you post there before your get to 10 posts is so that maybe you figure this out, or someone tells you this. It's an imperfect system, but it's what the moderator committee has to work with.
Also, there is a HUGE difference between being a n00b, and being a new member. N00bs don't learn, or at least, they don't learn very easily.
Rules are there to limit the off topic, wrongfully posted threads in dev forums.That being said this thread has nothing to do with the device and because of which shouldn't have been made here. @OP go to Q&A and help other members to get your post .
Please bear with me as i normally just browse and rarely post, but how do i know if a thread i started was deleted? I have no messages of notifications, and i can't seem to find the thread.
If it was indeed deleted, could someone tell me why it would have been, as i was only trying to give back to the community in a meaningfully way?
I have a oneplus one invite i'd like one of the hard working XDA developers or themers to have, and it only has about 14 hours left before it expires. If my thread is being deleted, please let me know so i can move to another forum in order to not let the invite go to waste.
They probably want you to post in this dedicated invite thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/wishing-invite-soon-t2825090
But thanks for sharing.
I'll close this thread so that you can go to the one linked above to post your invite.
https://account.oneplus.net/invite/claim/1TXJ-GRT6-6JXY-STNZ
Thanks a lot!!!
Faith in humanity restored!
TAKE THIS ONE TOO!!! HURRY FAST!!!
You're welcome.
https://account.oneplus.net/invite/claim/BZMP-RXRM-TJAE-2IDO
Thanks so much, love the title name also.
ONE MORE! EXPIRES IN 5 HRS
https://account.oneplus.net/invite/claim/OKUL-7GLE-XSIV-A8ZA
Why do people create new threads when there are already dedicated threads for this.
Why do you reply to those threads then?
@samflorin same reason you just did ... Voice an opinion. But yeah I probs should'nt (and this reply doesn't help either).
http://goo.gl/y3FzpU
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People can give away the invites anyway they want. If they don't like the available threads, there shouldn't be a problem with them opening up one that suits their purposes. But no selling or trading invites please...that's just wrong
justmpm said:
People can give away the invites anyway they want. If they don't like the available threads, there shouldn't be a problem with them opening up one that suits their purposes. But no selling or trading invites please...that's just wrong
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Ok, then there should be a new section just for invite threads like there is at the Oneplus forum. These threads shouldn't be here in General then.
justmpm said:
People can give away the invites anyway they want. If they don't like the available threads, there shouldn't be a problem with them opening up one that suits their purposes. But no selling or trading invites please...that's just wrong
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Thanks for clarifying. Before, the mods were closing every invite thread except the stickied one and the XDA-Exclusive Invite List managed by timmaaa. I must say I prefer it that way. The General section is getting filled with random invite threads that if not closed, just cause more begging. It also makes having a stickied thread kinda pointless. Why not make a "give away your invite thread," sticky it and end the madness?
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Thanks for clarifying. Before, the mods were closing every invite thread except the stickied one and the XDA-Exclusive Invite List managed by timmaaa. I must say I prefer it that way. The General section is getting filled with random invite threads that if not closed, just cause more begging. It also makes having a stickied thread kinda pointless. Why not make a "give away your invite thread," sticky it and end the madness?
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lol... In a way its fun... but i agree should be organized.
I have 2 invites! QUICK! They're only good for 3 hours!
I'll post the first one and as soon as I get a reply that someone has used it, I'll edit the post and add another. HAVE FUN AND WELCOME TO BACON!!!
https://account.oneplus.net/invite/claim/CMMX-KCEB-C6PS-CYFA