And now, a word from your friendly neighbourhood moderators!
As you may know some of our Android device forums are a bit "messy", with your help, let's see if we can keep the i9000 forums clean! This is a bit of an experiment, to see if posts like these help at all. Most of the following is simple common sense, and for most of you it will hopefully bring nothing new.
Moderators
The official i9000 forums moderator is Sirphunkee. I, Chainfire will also be hanging around here quite a bit.
Rules
Please consult the forum rules before posting, they can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=263#post81
Additions
The rules should be clear enough, however I will repeat some points for emphasis and post some additions here as well.
Use the search
This speaks for itself, though many still don't use it.
Check the i9000 FAQ before posting
It can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723596
Don't post in the android development section ...
... unless you are absolutely sure it belongs there! The developers / hackers are trying to work, don't bother them with things that do not belong there.
When in doubt, post in the general section. If it's a question, post in the Q&A section
If you're not sure, it probably should NOT go into the android development section.
Treat eachother with respect
No flaming, no personal attacks, be nice, behave, show respect. While you may be responding to somebody who has asked a question you might find dumb, or he didn't use the search, or whatever reason you think you may have, it is never ever warranted to be flaming anyone, and it simply will not be tolerated.
Ignore flames, personal attacks, etc
If these should occur, do not respond to them! Especially when they are directed at you, this is hard to do and you want to defend yourself. Suppres this urge! Responding to these is "feeding the troll", and only serves to bring a thread further off-topic and make it much harder for us moderators to clean up the mess. Responding to these posts makes you part of the problem, and doesn't help anyone. See below for how to report these to have a moderator look at it, and if needed, remove it. Don't let the trolls win!
Saying thank you
This forum does not come with a "thank you" button like some other forums do. While for example if you post a question and others help you out, saying "thank you" is nice, in many development threads saying thank you only serves to clutter to thread. Please do not post a comment saying nothing more than "thank you" in these threads - instead perhaps consider giving the developer a small donation to show your appreciation, give the thread a 5-star rating, or help out in some other way (like assisting others with their problems).
Helping out
There are many of you, and only a few of us moderators. Like you, we are mere humans, we are not paid for being here, and our time is limited - we cannot read every post of every thread. The first few things you can do to help out is behave, assist others, follow the rules, and make sure you are not the (negative) reason that we need to look at a thread or post. But there's more you can do to be of assistance:
Reporting posts
Each post has a "report" button associated with it, found at the top-right of the post. It a triangle with an exclamation mark inside of it, and hard to miss. Clicking it will give you a box you can use to add a comment, and then the post in question will be brought to the attention of the moderators. Be short and precise when writing the comment. While your biography is undoubtedly an interesting thing to read, it has no place in that comment box Please verify that the post is actually against the rules of XDA (see link at the top of this post) before reporting a post. The additions I have posted here, unless they are also present in the XDA rules, are not enforced by other moderators.
Posts in the wrong section
I see a lot of comments on threads that they are in the wrong section. Please handle these threads in the following way:
Check that nobody else has already posted that the thread is in the wrong section. Do not clutter the thread with notices about how the thread starter is in the wrong place, one notice is enough!
If you're the first, post that the thread should have been (for example) in the general or Q&A section instead of the android development section, in a kind and respectful way, and ...
report the post, putting something like "not development, please move to general" in the comment box.
Flames, personal attacks, (severe) disrespect
Even though these are against the rules, they will still happen. As stated above, it is generally not a good idea to respond to them. However, depending on how offensive they are, you might wish to report them for moderator attention. Do so in the following way:
Check that nobody else has already posted that he reported the post. Do not clutter the thread with notices, responses to a flame, etc. One notice is enough!
If you appear to be the first, you might want to post that you have reported said post (without quoting it!), and ...
check if others have quoted the flame, personal attack, etc in their replies, and ...
report the post, putting something like "flame, has been quoted / responded to by others". This makes our job faster to do!
Violations of other rules
These will happen. Again, check if others have already (kindly and respectfully) notified the poster that his behaviour is against the rules. You might want to report such a violation, but please take a moment to think about it, and do not go on a "reporting spree". Is the violation really so severe that it needs to be "handled" by moderators ? Does a moderator really need to warn this user about his behaviour ? Does the post really need to be modified by a moderator ? For example, for some light verbal abuse / explicit language, you might just want to (kindly) ask the user to tone his language down a bit and/or edit his own post, instead of turning to a moderator.
Don't go on a reporting spree
As stated above, think hard about reporting a post before you do it. For example, don't go to android development section and report threads from page 3 to be in the wrong area. The thread is likely already dead, and requesting to have it moved is a waste of both your and our time. Use common sense!
Other
The "star rating" system is not useless
You can rate a thread with up to 5 stars. Please use this ability, it makes it easy to spot high quality and low quality threads for others browsing these forums.
Don't PM myself or Sirphunkee unless you really have to
We get enough PM's as it is. Most things can be resolved without sending us a PM personally. For example by reporting a post, or posting in this thread here.
Need more empty posts at the top of your thread ?
It is not uncommon that you have ran out of space in the first post of your thread (especially with "release" threads). Feel free to request additional "first posts" for your thread by posting in this thread here.
Do you really think a certain thread should (or should no longer) be a sticky ?
Again, feel free to post that here in this thread. Obviously, do not request your own threads to be stickied. If it is worthy, others will request it for you.
Anything you would like to add or request ?
Feel free to post it in here, but please remain on-topic.
The end!
Hopefully this will have a positive effect and is generally helpful, if not, I'll just remove this thread again.
I will try to keep up with the posts in here !
Thank you! I appreciate you putting time into keep our little patch of XDA in shape.
Thanks for your time!
it was about time we got some one official in here
Thank you moderators, for sacrificing your personal time to make this forum more enjoyable.
This is an excellent thread and it was about time to put things in order!
My congratulations guys!
Since there is an option for requests here..I would like to request consideration for this petition:
[Q] Proposal to merge all Galaxy S family into 1 neat and big sub forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=764084
Аnd there are already 270+ members up for merging.
Will moderators consider it?
That's an admin decision, not a moderator decision.
Oh, ok, sorry
Did the admins take final decision whether to merge or not?
And are they aware of the situation?
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Oh, ok, sorry
Did the admins take final decision whether to merge or not?
And are they aware of the situation?
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Yes, the discussion about this is ongoing at the moment. The admins and mods are discussing the best way to handle the organizing of all the Galaxy forum sections, and will likely come to some decision shortly. We're looking at the proposal in AllGamer's poll (see the sticky at the top of this section) as a possible solution, and I'm sure we'll post whatever the final decision is somewhere in each of the current sections (this one included) to make sure all members who need to know are aware.
sirphunkee , thank you for your reply and your work
All Galaxy S owners are looking forward to solving this problem
Modified the first post a bit to reference Q&A section. Q&A has been here for a while but I was on vacation
I see lots of great work from moderation lately!
This forum felt little 'undermoderated' until now, but your effort in past hours to keep this place up just cant be missed!
Thank you!
Thanks guys for all you do, got my SGS 9 days ago; was fearful of rooting; found one click lag fix, dove right in; you guys are awesome!!!! thank you!! thank you!!! thank you!!!
Well, not replying to anything in particular and nothing really special enough to warrant a new topic and since this is the most "general" Galaxy S topic I thought I'd share it here.
Swiping my Galaxy S along the the left side of the laptop (keyboard) area puts my Macbook Pro to sleep (around the FN key). Only when the Galaxy S is unlocked and screen, just a weird occurrence I thought I'd share. Tried it on a few other Macbook Pros, same result. Looked around a bit, apparently magnet does this but I'm thinking something else. Interesting nonetheless.
useful topic
Indeed usefull topic!
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hi you all i am new here
Noted with the rules...
okej good to know
What the criterion some thread its useful and useless?.,example one membler create a topic to discuss something "how" to make this work.....,and other membler create a thread and ask what langunge and country you from?..,which thread do you think uselless and useful in that 2 kind thread..
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Im sorry to hear that your post was deleted. Well it is easy to identify if the post is useful or not. When it is informative and would help somebody to cope up with some matters, it is said to be useful. Regarding with the useless one, well in General forum, you can discuss new things, for information or just for fun like in "Show up your Homescreen", so every post are welcome but keep in mind that if there is an existing thread that will relate to what your going to post, you should not make another thread for that coz your thread will be closed/deleted unnoticed even if there are some valuable post in it. The point is YOU SHOULD POST YOUR CONCERN IN THE RIGHT THREAD, IF THE THREAD DONT EXIST THEN CREATE ONE. SO BEFORE POSTING TRY SEARCHING FIRST.
@ OP: i guess i've already answer to your question in the other thread but it seems to me that you are hard to understand, ok here we go:
X person make a "Synaptic" thread at 22 June
Y persone make a "Synaptic" thread at 24 June
You make a "Synaptic" thread at 26 June
I take all relevant posts from 26 and 24 June threads and i copy them to 22 June thread and then i delete the last 2 and then i make 22 June sticky so people don't go on to open again various "Synaptic" threads.
General Forum is made for General purpose and Q&A, it wasn't make for double topics.
There are a lot of Sticky threads where they said about "search before posting, do not spam, post in the right forum", now i'm not here to pm everyone that goes against the rules before delete theyr own thread, i already did in past and replies never came and i have a life too.
See, this is another useless thread since all your answers are in sticky threads, but i'll let this open so, maybe, this will be much clear for everyone.
I hope that now it is clear, though, if you and everyone think that we forum moderators did something wrong, well, you could contact our Administrators.
MikeChannon
egzthunder1
deedii said:
Im sorry to hear that your post was deleted. Well it is easy to identify if the post is useful or not. When it is informative and would help somebody to cope up with some matters, it is said to be useful. Regarding with the useless one, well in General forum, you can discuss new things, for information or just for fun like in "Show up your Homescreen", so every post are welcome but keep in mind that if there is an existing thread that will relate to what your going to post, you should not make another thread for that coz your thread will be closed/deleted unnoticed even if there are some valuable post in it. The point is YOU SHOULD POST YOUR CONCERN IN THE RIGHT THREAD, IF THE THREAD DONT EXIST THEN CREATE ONE. SO BEFORE POSTING TRY SEARCHING FIRST.
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thank you .. I do not mind if my thread deleted when previously there is a warning before being removed, so I can understand if my thread deleted because it violates the provisions of this forum .., i think you too might be annoyed if your thread is deleted without warning first., right?
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@ OP: i guess i've already answer to your question in the other thread but it seems to me that you are hard to understand, ok here we go:
X person make a "Synaptic" thread at 22 June
Y persone make a "Synaptic" thread at 24 June
You make a "Synaptic" thread at 26 June
I take all relevant posts from 26 and 24 June threads and i copy them to 22 June thread and then i delete the last 2 and then i make 22 June sticky so people don't go on to open again various "Synaptic" threads.
General Forum is made for General purpose and Q&A, it wasn't make for double topics.
There are a lot of Sticky threads where they said about "search before posting, do not spam, post in the right forum", now i'm not here to pm everyone that goes against the rules before delete theyr own thread, i already did in past and replies never came and i have a life too.
See, this is another useless thread since all your answers are in sticky threads, but i'll let this open so, maybe, this will be much clear for everyone.
I hope that now it is clear, though, if you and everyone think that we forum moderators did something wrong, well, you could contact our Administrators.
MikeChannon
egzthunder1
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Peace men..
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Peace
and sorry if i didn't pm you before deleting it
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Peace men..
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I understand why there have to be rules on a forum, for example the 10 post minimum before I can post on a development thread, but, I have been lurking for quite some time and have a specific question related to a ROM for which I seriously doubt I will receive an answer on a general thread.
I saw one post of a 'Thank you to Wescrip', the creator of ICS Resurrection and the person was told off and post it in the proper thread instead. Of course this original poster had only 1 post so he/she too was actually unable to do so.
So I hope you excuse me but I guess I will have to post some drivel here and there to up my post-count...
No offence, but ranting about it here really isn't going to help solve anything. Best thing to do is to post around helping others until you have the required amount.
Here's an excellent post on the rule, the reasons for it, and how you can go about obtaining 10 relevant posts
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069298
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Yes! 3rd note in a row!
Will add mine when it arrives!
Reserved?
Awesome and here we go again Stay Tuned!
Duplicate thread. Don't forget to search before posting
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...homescreen-t3825682/post77302946#post77302946
XDA Forum Rules
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