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Thinking of leaving xda :(

Well guys, I am seriously thinking of leaving xda. All of my posts are being moved from development to general "lufc" stating that they have nothing to do with development. Granted 1 or 2 of them dont, but not all of them. And he is leaving up posts in there from users that posted stuff since before I even owned this device. I will stay on here til I get CWM running. But after that I am thinking of leaving for good.
Dont take this the wrong way. I mean a couple of you are giving some useful insight, but honestly I am working on this myself and I only got 19 thanks on here and no donations. I mean, im not asking by any means for anyone to fork up anything for this especially since I have not finished the first and most essential need for the streak before any deving can be done. But with that being said, after I get CWM completed, there is really nothing holding me here since you guys wont even see my posts when they get moved half way across the universe.
Sorry guys. And then again, I might just stay, who knows
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This issue has been raised in the past, and it was determined by the Senior staff that any threads in [Device] Development must either contain a released product (i.e. ROMs), or tweaks/patches (i.e. registry fixes). Any threads that do not meet these requirements will be moved to General. All questions will be moved to Q&A is it exists for a particular device.
@OP: Creating a thread like this is not the correct channel to discuss actions taken by a Forum Moderator. Going forward, please reply to the automated PM you received as each thread was moved, or send a PM to any Senior Moderator, and we will take a look.

[Q] Deleted Thread?

Earlier today I created a new thread about the volume level on my phone being low and if there was a way to fix it. Within a few hours I came back to see if anybody had replied with any suggestions, the entire thread was deleted!!
Who decides which threads get to live and which ones die? And by what criteria is this decision made? I have a real problem and asked an honest question. Why was my thread deleted? I didnt get a message stating why or anything. Poof, the thread was just gone. I've been a long time member of this message board and have answered and posted many good posts. I think it was a raw deal that when I had a real problem and needed help, some power-hungry jerk just deleted my thread with no explanation what's so ever.

Only mods can delete threads. In the future, you should search better before opening a new thread. Mods are strictly enforcing the rules more (operation Iron Fist).

Yea, I always try to search first. Even when I'm typing the topic of the new thread the forum auto searches for you.
I did search and didnt really find anything that was 100% dead-on what I was asking about.
I guess since the Captivate forum has a new moderator, he's feeling powerful; deleting posts/threads at the drop of a hat.

@ hulk

For some reason you blocked me from sending PM.
Weird behaviour of a mod, you don't even give new members the change to explain.
So here is what i wanted to send:
Strange, why you closed my thread?
I just saw the link the polish guy posted and found a few answers there.
But not all answers are in that thread, simply because it's not the same rom.
Ok, i'm a new member and don't know all the rules and find everything right away, but since when is it forbidden to ask simpel questions that weren't asked before?
And b.t.w. new memebrs are forced to spam questions in those threads, because we have to wait 10 posts before we can ask in de dev thread.
I understand why that is, but it doesn't solve the problem because after 10 posts people do it anyway.
Thank you for your help/time anyway.
I now reached my 10 posts, so you can close this thread or place it were it belongs (off-topic thread?)

I understand your feeling but many members newbie or not they say use search button first before asking or specially creating a new thread like the one you create there's a identical thread that tonyp's created in that section you can ask there even your post is below 10 because the q&a section is the section where you should learn first the things you want to know because its full of question and answer
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Hulk is the worst mod xda has ever had.

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Hulk is the worst mod xda has ever had.
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You made a new account just to say that? I'm impressed.
This thread should be closed now.

If there no answers then ask a question in proper thread and it will be added to Q&A.
Your thread was closed, because I reported it as useless.
If MrXT would became moderator, he probably behaved the same. I am moderator on another forum too and some user just don't feel rules that the person must keep to make forum clean. MrXT is just a hater, don't know what his mind is pointed on.
Hulk does his job very good
Sorry, if I offenses you. I wanted to point you to ask all questions in thread that contains library which grows up i properly thread.
Cheers.
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lottumeb said:
For some reason you blocked me from sending PM.
Weird behaviour of a mod, you don't even give new members the change to explain.
So here is what i wanted to send:
Strange, why you closed my thread?
I just saw the link the polish guy posted and found a few answers there.
But not all answers are in that thread, simply because it's not the same rom.
Ok, i'm a new member and don't know all the rules and find everything right away, but since when is it forbidden to ask simpel questions that weren't asked before?
And b.t.w. new memebrs are forced to spam questions in those threads, because we have to wait 10 posts before we can ask in de dev thread.
I understand why that is, but it doesn't solve the problem because after 10 posts people do it anyway.
Thank you for your help/time anyway.
I now reached my 10 posts, so you can close this thread or place it were it belongs (off-topic thread?)
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What the hell are you complaining about?
Your thread was closed with a very polite message pointing you towards the correct place for your question and your response is to throw a public tantrum....
Nobody has stopped you sending PMs and pointless threads will be closed, just like this one.

ANDROID L! Seriously guys?

Ok, this is getting crazy over here. Why on earth can we not have a SINGLE THREAD about Android L? It is the biggest release for Android and some people are excited. Everybody was confined to one thread prior to this, and guess what? That thread was closed. Why? Because people were apparently "spamming questions" (I didn't read through the entire thread so I don't know exactly what was going down, but the last couple pages didn't see all that bad).
Every other thread now is getting shut down. Seriously, what does it matter if people are asking too much? They are excited! Closing all of these threads are just going to make new people (those who weren't here last night or today) keep posting more topics on the matter. So what if people are being annoying. That main thread that was closed still had some genuine people in it. Who cares if there are a few people throughout the thread asking too much? Let them be! At least it is in one thread and not making a mess of this and the Q&A forum, likes its been since the main thread was closed.
Let this topic stay please, and let anybody speculate, ask questions, build hype or whatever towards Dev preview!
May I just remind everybody who would say something along the lines of "Oh XDA is a developer forum not blah blah blah", which is what I have seen numerous times in these topics that have been closed:
Quoted Directly above the threads here in General!
"Since this is not a development section, you can post on general topics that all users will encounter with the Nexus 5. Any registered XDA user can post in this forum."
I believe all users will encounter Android L, so why can't there be speculation, posts about things that were discovered, new pictures ect.? Look I know it gets annoying, but that's when it is all over the forum. Can we just keep this one topic open and confine everybody to it? It will make those who want to talk about it happy for they have a place and it will make those annoyed happy for it is only one thread.

Noble cause, but it won't work. It will derail in a matter of seconds and none of us mods feel like taking on the burden of keeping it in check simply for speculation purposes. Wait for the test version to drop, until then nothing is allowed.
Thread closed.

Moderation Thread - What to move where?

Hi together!
I would like to offer you a good method of helping:
dsa suggested to leave sorting out the topics to the community so this is your chance.
When you want me to move a topic out of the originating big thread just list the posts to move here and give a appropriate topic.
It's not a good point to just start a topic and link the old posts in my opinion. If ultimately necessary we could move posts out and copy them back. That would have advantage that old links lead to new topics but the posts are still in the old thread if someone wants to read the flow. So if you think it's ultimately needed to leave those copys in the old thread note that along with your request.

I think threads should be moved out into separate threads AND kept in the old thread. But it will be a LOT of work reading through the entire old thread and separating out all the subjects that have been covered, like WEEKS of work, maybe months.
Maybe we should all work together on a list of the subjects to separate from the old thread and post them all here ?
I can think of a few topics off hand :
Mic mods (maybe separate threads for each manufacturer as they differ slightly
MCU flashing
DSA's TT mod
Adding powered USB hub
Maybe its also a good idea to post in the old thread about any new threads that have been opened elsewhere in the MTCB Headunits forums, so as many people as possible are aware of them ?

I would love when people who think we should split out info from the old thread would list the posts here then I cna split them out and merge a copy back.
(Why so complicated? When splitting out the link will direct to the new topic and when copying back the information will be also in the old thread but the old links will still point to the newly created thread)
I stopped splitting out on my own behalf because some people complained they don't like being OP of such threads.

dark alex said:
I would love when people who think we should split out info from the old thread would list the posts here then I cna split them out and merge a copy back.
(Why so complicated? When splitting out the link will direct to the new topic and when copying back the information will be also in the old thread but the old links will still point to the newly created thread)
I stopped splitting out on my own behalf because some people complained they don't like being OP of such threads.
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Yes, I think I know who some of those people are, cant see a problem with it really, its the best way as the old thread is kept but its useful to have them separated out and no one can force an OP to do anything, they can just ignore messages etc if they want.