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O hai thar.
hey ...... 9 more to go
Statistics show that new members are more likely to leave XDA due to being ridiculed in off topic, then if they made some valuable posts in other sections they can post in.
Ahh... but it's like a test... If they can survive off topic... they're ready
MacaronyMax said:
Ahh... but it's like a test... If they can survive off topic... they're ready
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In that case, statistics show most new members don't survive off topic. lol
jaszek said:
In that case, statistics show most new members don't survive off topic. lol
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Plus 90% of statistics are made up
twitch153 said:
Plus 90% of statistics are made up
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On the other hand statistics show that 77% of all people saying statistics are not real, are indeed not real
There has been a 50% reduction in useful posts from informed lurkers since the 10-post rule, and a 0% reduction in stupid posts from idiots in the same timeframe.
paready said:
There has been a 50% reduction in useful posts from informed lurkers since the 10-post rule, and a 0% reduction in stupid posts from idiots in the same timeframe.
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Figures show that you are included in that 50% reduction of useful posts due to the fact you are like the other 65% of xda who have less than 10 posts
Hello Felllas!!!
hi all folks...
Related
This is my reply to the mess of a thread located at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=781513
I hope my suggestions are taken in the very helpful spirit that they were typed.
Thanks folks.
I'm gonna be all trolly here and what not. Is there not a way to simply FORCE people to read? As in, you can't post for 3 weeks after you join? It wouldn't stop people from being stupid, but it would help train them to Search & Read in the 3 weeks that they desperately wait for a Rom to drop.
This thread has the train wreck effect... I couldn't not read the whole damn thing. (I am actually very interested in getting the originally mentioned feature, btw.) And yes my post is Off-Topic, yet ridiculously relevant. I have quietly been a member of this forum for years and haven't seen this kind of wasted space ever. Maybe I should stop recommending people "Go check out xda developers online..." I am partially responsible for getting these people here. But, I believe a strong, open community is the best way to get results. Perhaps, all new members trying to post new threads outside of the General/Q&A forums get redirected to the Advanced Search page unless verified by a mod as a legitimate dev contributor? I am sure that would require coding a module for the forums... And since I don't know how to do any of that I will end my trolliness now. Oh wait, maybe a simpler solution - A "Wrong forum button" where if enough people vote the post gets moved. Seems simple enough and the mods can get the help they need without have the more - zealous - members of our community take matters into their own hands.
Thanks for your time and attention to my suggestions. I will now look for an appropriate place to post this in the main forum.
-Memo
See that's why I voted "against" xda samsung section, you'll see it will be even worse when we get an lg and istick sections
This place is becoming just like other places only flaming and "your problems are stupid because this is alright for me". Luckily there are still a lot of decent people around here which make me stay.
poll looks pretty inconclusive to me
Very umm, intellectual thread read that was.
But you know when inviting a couple of close friends over turns into a full blown Hizouse Partaaay a couple of fights are gonna break out...
Actions as such in that thread aren't very rampant but can make for an interesting read. But comparing contributions, join date and or post count in any situation is pretty moronic.
Has there ever been a thread where it ended happy and all party's posted:
Like, man I'm sorry man I was drunk.
Oh no man it's cool, man my wife was gettin on me about the garbage and kids were nagging.
So are we cool?
Yeah man. Can I invite you as a friend?
Oh totally!
That would be awesome to see...
good day.
I have seen many happy ending threads actually.
And honestly, I didn't really understand your ideas on what is being discussed. I think that if the actions were rampant then this site would be dying as many have before. XDA has a very long legacy, and it should be protected BEFORE it becomes a problem. Just how telling a 15 y/o that suddenly his backtalk is not acceptable would have no effect, telling the new influx of users being drawn by the boom in mobility that they have to behave in the forums when everything they see is "IS.HE.THE.DADDY.DNA.TEST-Developers.com" would be ineffective. Needs to be taken care of early. Prevent the problem. Don't waste tons of resources trying to fix it.
And just to be clear were you at all trying to be offensive, snarky, or sarcastic? Just curious.
- Memo
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It's a wealth of information! Perhaps we need to stick people into the Brain Training room from Lost. ...I'll go look for my lab coat.
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And honestly, I didn't really understand your ideas on what is being discussed.
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Actually just noticed the [Q] on the thread title, your post didn't really reference adding on to your suggestions. So my bad for not seeing the [Q]. Wrong forum button does have some potential. But the experienced xda user should know who his forum mod is and send a pm outlining any gripe with link to thread before turning it into a public chest puffing competition where in the end all who participated look like morons.
Is it feasible to have an ethics moderating committee that would monitor the content and actions of the first 15 posts of a new member? But it all still comes down to an individual showing that they have the utmost respect for xda and its users. Members involved in your example are not spring chickens and should be a little ashamed. Because a new user might think that is the norm for the forum.
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And just to be clear were you at all trying to be offensive, snarky, or sarcastic?
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No. The house party statement does hold a lot truth though. Even 3 years ago the "smart phone" was seen as a business tool. Even you brought up the influx of new users as result of the mobile boom. I'm 36 now and didn't even get a cell phone till I was 23. Now I see children with devices that I would die to have or be able to afford. The age demographic of this site has changed so dramatically over the last couple of years. And as elder members we can only protect the image of xda by policing our own actions and utilizing the forum mods for what they are intended for.
Since it is off topic I still feel like I need to have a little fun.
Boobs....... o.k. I'm done.
good day.
a good start would be requiring everyone to add a nice greeting to the end of their posts according to the time of the day
ive talked to the mods about this in the past and they liked the idea, but havent added it yet:
requiring a signature to be set up upon first signing up to xda including current phone/s, rom, recovery, hboot, kernel...
having set up so that registering could not continue without filling out these fields (of course there would have to be a "how-to" option to help those that dont know what those are or how to find out what they have)
this would stop the
"can someone help me please! my phone wont boot"
"what phone do you have?"
"G1"
"what rom are you running?"
"stock 1.6"
"what hboot?"
exchanges which take up half the posts in a lot of threads
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a good start would be requiring everyone to add a nice greeting to the end of their posts according to the time of the day
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requiring a signature to be set up upon first signing up
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This would also help create that pause for reflection and research that I think would really help the new members get oriented. Right from the start they learn they have to provide as much info as possible, if they are ever to get a response.
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Actually just noticed the [Q] ...
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Actually, I should have restructured the post. I just straight copy/pasted from a related thread where the info would have been read in context.
chopper the dog said:
Is it feasible to have an ethics moderating committee that would monitor the content and actions of the first 15 posts of a new member?... Members involved in your example are not spring chickens and should be a little ashamed. ...
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I don't know that it would be feasible. I was even thinking of perhaps a Volunteer Buddy Moderation, where you have to submit your first 5 posts for approval from a mentor. The mentor would be in charge of making sure the protocol was followed - Search And Read, Label subject line correctly, and provide full info... I just don't know that anyone is willing to work on the actual Forum Coding... And adding more work to the mods wouldn't be a good idea. If they had the time to constantly be vigil, they would kill the problem posts as soon as they are noticed.
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The age demographic of this site has changed so dramatically over the last couple of years. And as elder members we can only protect the image of xda by policing our own actions and utilizing the forum mods for what they are intended for.
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I guess it can be expected from the youngins, but how do you get the grumpy, reactionary elders to nod feed the flames?
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Since it is off topic I still feel like I need to have a little fun.
Boobs....... o.k. I'm done.
good day.
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Butts.
Good day to you too, sir.
Happy Ending. Don't see many of these. HERE
good day.
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Happy Ending. Don't see many of these. HERE
good day.
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That did work out rather nice... But they weren't being completely nasty to each other.
Not like these guys...
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/7993-ffc-for-the-vibrant/
Some people have every intent of being offensive. Don't really get the point but hey.
Kids will be kids
What i see is a lot of kids (15-30) in this forum tend to think since they know...... you should too. Forums should encourage newbies to get involved and once they are communicating then, reroute them to the right forum etc. this kind of considerate rational act would improve and make this forum WAY better, but then, I digress.
Requiring the signature probably would be helpful, but I think the moderator being vigilant and remind the sarcastic, inconsiderate they once were Newbies may be just as effective. People need to remember that not all here are devs, programmers or really techies. A lot are here for the education..... but then....my wife always said i was too much an idealist
WOW hit a new level HERE.
good day.
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Just added a link for easy answering, when done click the button at the buttom of the page. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MKVMRRZ
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We are a group of physiotherapists that have been forced to do a survey about junk-food and peoples thoughts about it, please take your time to answer these questions.
Why aren't we investing in long-term solutions such as improving the quality / nutritional value of the soil?
Why do you think fast food has become so widespread, despite the poor quality?
Why are people still "uninformed" about food, although knowledge is available?
Why do scare campagns do poorly in your country. if they do ?
Do you think that people who drink alcohol or smoke should have to pay for treatment of diseases related to lifestyle, and why?
what country are you from?
Thanks in advance.
I'm from the U.S.A. Weed is the cause of all these problems.
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I'm from England. I eat junk when I cannot be bothered to cook. We have hectic lives now for what our bodies were not intended to do. Hence the rise in mental health issues. Easiest way out is fast food...
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I´ve made a link to make it easier for ppl to answer.
hopefully I´ll get some answers I can use
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I'm from the U.S.A. Weed is the cause of all these problems.
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Don't start on marij****, I would win on an argument with that.. We** does nothing to your braincells like some of your 5th grade teachers say.
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Don't start on marij****, I would win on an argument with that.. We** does nothing to your braincells like some of your 5th grade teachers say.
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+1, I smoke weed every day and I eat better (healthier) than probably 90% of my fellow Americans, but that's a whole other topic..
It made you forget a couple of letters, "uana" and "ed".
good day.
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It made you forget a couple of letters, "uana" and "ed".
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Baaaahahahahahahahaha...wait, what's next? oh yeah...hahahahaha Priceless
The 10,000 posts? We were going all the way! We were at like 3000. I even bet some guys on another forum that we could beat them there!
What happend to it?
i dunno who deleted it , but he did a great job
we dont need that spam here
now grow up and do somthin better with ur life
its not spam. You see all of these other threads like ban the person above you and what are you listening to (theres plenty more)
people sit in there and post in those all day. Why not close those down?
and if i did much more with my life i would be the next Trump or Gates or someone
Doesn't matter. Other threads are above 10k. Your thread was worthless lol
Swyped from my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO
Still makes no sense
If you weren't here noticing it's because the 10 posts to post rule was causing major people (And still is) to spam. The mods wanted to cut the threads that caused spam on massive levels.
-There is a 35% chance that right now I'm on the toilet-
How about the three word story?
Hasn't been deleted
And why are you guys being kind of assholish to him?
I enjoyed his thread
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How about the three word story?
Hasn't been deleted
And why are you guys being kind of assholish to him?
I enjoyed his thread
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I wasn't being assholish, I was just stating the reason why it was deleted, like he asked.
Yeah I guess I understand what you mean with the Three word story thread but maybe that might be because it requires some sort of mild intelligence, unlike "1" Just a guess though. I'm not trying to be an asshole so please don't mistake the way I'm acting for assholishness.
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I wasn't being assholish, I was just stating the reason why it was deleted, like he asked.
Yeah I guess I understand what you mean with the Three word story thread but maybe that might be because it requires some sort of mild intelligence, unlike "1" Just a guess though. I'm not trying to be an asshole so please don't mistake the way I'm acting for assholishness.
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Nah not you the other ones were
Your good
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miss the post, funny little comments, facts about dates or numbers.
who ever deleted it is a grumpy so and so.
A certain Dead Component deleted it Fair enough, I think it was because the <10Posters were using it to get to dev forums But R.I.P those 3000 posts that have gone
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The 10,000 posts? We were going all the way! We were at like 3000. I even bet some guys on another forum that we could beat them there!
What happend to it?
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Your thread was deleted since it was only used for boosting post count, especially now that there is a 10 post limit to new members.
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Your thread was deleted since it was only used for boosting post count, especially now that there is a 10 post limit to new members.
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Hey Mr.C Haven't seen you round in ages
I notice your collecting quite allot of positions
Whats 10 posts gonna do? Not trying to start something or offend anyone but anyone can go into a couple rom or theme threads say thanks and in under 5 minutes have 10 posts.
But whatever it was made to have a little fun in off topic, it doesn't matter
That's crap, the entire ot needs to be set not to bump post count. That would negate deletion of threads and spam from noobs
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Or just ban noobs from ot
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That's crap, the entire ot needs to be set not to bump post count. That would negate deletion of threads and spam from noobs
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We are working on this
and the second one also
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We are working on this
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If it's retroactive, does that mean orb3000 is a noob again?
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That's crap, the entire ot needs to be set not to bump post count.
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noooooooooooooooooooooooo
my life .... all these years of research and work , gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boborone said:
That's crap, the entire ot needs to be set not to bump post count. That would negate deletion of threads and spam from noobs
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Thats a good idea
hello members,
We all have been here since years, months and days, many more are coming to join this legendary forum. So, i am starting this thread to show my contribution for this forum.
I am posting just a wallpaper that i made for my cell.
I hope many of you will join in, you can contribute anything and everything
Regards
I might be getting really, really cynical...or maybe i always was, but my sarcasm detector just went right off the charts
It's just as well i'm a well measured and rational person! Perhaps i'm spending too much time in the 'bad' kind of forum today...dunno?
OP. thanks for your work, it's good and we'd all like to see more. Forgive my ramblings and stop by Off-Topic for a chat anytime.
Edit: Friday night is often humming. Stay here for duration/visit then go out for whole night/visit-go out-come-back!
Nooooooooooooooooo please!!!!!!!
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many more are coming to join this legendary forum.
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Nooooooooooooooooo please!!!!!!!
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hahahahha! Rofl
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Nooooooooooooooooo please!!!!!!!
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Nope, nothing at all! Didn't even twitch
Is there i can take my detector for re-calibration?
I'm broken...help me guys
Edit: Goddammit, now i accidentally my sentence. What's wrong with me??
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Nope, nothing at all! Didn't even twitch
Is there i can take my detector for re-calibration?
I'm broken...help me guys
Edit: Goddammit, now i accidentally my sentence. What's wrong with me??
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Time to put the stella down sir.
I think you've had enough.
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
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Time to put the stella down sir.
I think you've had enough.
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
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I haven't had any!!!111
*tumbleweeds....*pennies drop...*the other shoe does too...*clanking and high pitched squeal.....
...
Aaaahhhh, i see what you did there! Very clever, reverse psycology...make the subject approach the problem from a different angle.
You're in the wrong line of work my friend!
So what you're saying is Drink more Stella and everything will be fixed? You sir are a genius, i shall commence your plan forthwith.
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I haven't had any!!!111
*tumbleweeds....*pennies drop...*the other shoe does too...*clanking and high pitched squeal.....
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Aaaahhhh, i see what you did there! Very clever, reverse psycology...make the subject approach the problem from a different angle.
You're in the wrong line of work my friend!
So what you're saying is Drink more Stella and everything will be fixed? You sir are a genius, i shall commence your plan forthwith.
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Precisely.....
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
WTH are you rambling about @DirkGently1???
Ok, so the most recent thread, the "roll over your keyboard" one, has made me think of why some users on here hate on new threads.
I personally think that we should really stop acting this way, its insanely stupid and you are just coming out as immature.
I also noticed that majority of the "trolls" are S-mems with many posts. NEWSFLASH you are just setting a bad example of how S-mems act to any new member that posts.
My question stands -- why do you do it?
I hope my post in the "post what you're doing right now" thread didn't offend.
It's the OT people will get burned, regardless if it's a new or old thread. If people can't take the heat, stay away from the OT. That's the only reasonable answer I can give.
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It's the OT people will get burned, regardless if it's a new or old thread. If people can't take the heat, stay away from the OT. That's the only reasonable answer I can give.
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care to explain?
OT = home of trolls. They can be destructive at times and completely docile at others. They will bash up one thread while respecting and contributing to other threads. All I'm saying is such things happen. It's all part and parcel of dwelling in the OT and people shouldn't get their panties in a bunch if their thread gets bashed. They shouldn't expect too much from this section in the forum. If they go unscathed, good for them. If not leave it in the past and move on.
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care to explain?
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We don't cotton to stupidity 'round these parts.
Off-topic is already full of junk. This is just more junk. Until the powers that be decide to improve the standards in OT, anybody posting junk threads should be flamed relentlessly.
Half the threads here should be closed immediately and bans should be handed out for creating junk threads in future. For people who don't know the difference between a good thread and a junk thread:
Photography thread = Good
Take your head and let it roll over your keyboard = Junk
Of course, the powers that be need to do their part. OT shouldn't be a dumping ground for junk threads made in other parts of the forums either. If those threads are junk, delete them. Simple.
OT has it's moments, but for the most part it's full of witless nonsense.
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Off-topic is already full of junk. This is just more junk. Until the powers that be decide to improve the standards in OT, anybody posting junk threads should be flamed relentlessly.
Half the threads here should be closed immediately and bans should be handed out for creating junk threads in future. For people who don't know the difference between a good thread and a junk thread:
Photography thread = Good
Take your head and let it roll over your keyboard = Junk
Of course, the powers that be need to do their part. OT shouldn't be a dumping ground for junk threads made in other parts of the forums either. If those threads are junk, delete them. Simple.
OT has it's moments, but for the most part it's full of witless nonsense.
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Well said..
Thanks button
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I beg to differ that this thread belongs to an empire under lord empty_m.
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I beg to differ that this thread belongs to an empire under lord empty_m.
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+1 Agreed! :angel:
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+1 Agreed! :angel:
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^ @deathnotice01 and this guy are examples of trolls that cant stand new threads
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^ @deathnotice01 and this guy are examples of trolls that cant stand new threads
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thank you!
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thank you!
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You think its funny? NEWSFLASH its not
(I just noticed, I pretty much have bad mood throughout the day, guess the periods gonna start...?)
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You think its funny? NEWSFLASH its not
(I just noticed, I pretty much have bad mood throughout the day, guess the periods gonna start...?)
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Are you optimuslove ??
Ok Ok i'm truly sorry if i have broken the rules or such but i cant help but troll when useless threads come out (ONLY IF IT'S useless)
That should make em think twice
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Are you optimuslove ??
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yeah,
(o_o the name change happened a few months ago, no idea why some still dont know )
Someone told me you ditched the Optimus name for a Sammy one. Then I saw the 0.999999 = 1 link in your sig and it all clicked
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Someone told me you ditched the Optimus name for a Sammy one. Then I saw the 0.999999 = 1 link in your sig and it all clicked
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DirkGently said:
Off-topic is already full of junk. This is just more junk. Until the powers that be decide to improve the standards in OT, anybody posting junk threads should be flamed relentlessly.
Half the threads here should be closed immediately and bans should be handed out for creating junk threads in future. For people who don't know the difference between a good thread and a junk thread:
Photography thread = Good
Take your head and let it roll over your keyboard = Junk
Of course, the powers that be need to do their part. OT shouldn't be a dumping ground for junk threads made in other parts of the forums either. If those threads are junk, delete them. Simple.
OT has it's moments, but for the most part it's full of witless nonsense.
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There, you heard it from the OT Meister himself.
/thread
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^ @deathnotice01 and this guy are examples of trolls that cant stand new threads
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I thought we were friends,
You made me sadz todays
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