(requests) From the Users to the Mods & Admins

[A2Trip]

Can I change my user name?.... Please?

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[Whiskey103]

Can I change my user name?.... Please?

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PM MikeChannon and he will do it for you
Or pm me and I will forward it, no problem.

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[PeartFan40]

Excuse me? That was not very nice at all. If you do not have anything to contribute to this request thread than keepa you mouth shut!
Geez, some people....

Speaking of not being nice...Was this ^^ really neccessary? CFB has been around the block a few times, and contributes a lot of useful information to XDA. He wasn't being rude at all; just offering an alternate point of view.

Let's stay on topic, and refrain from posting flamatory comments.

Thank You.






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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice"

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[undercover]

I actually like the idea. You learn by either having a pop up or googling, but you end up LEARNING them. That's the point, right?

Posted from Nexus 4. Jelly?

 

[Whiskey103]

I actually like the idea. You learn by either having a pop up or googling, but you end up LEARNING them. That's the point, right?

Posted from Nexus 4. Jelly?

Tbh I also like the idea. If it's not taking to much server resources I would vote for it.

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[cajunflavoredbob]

I actually like the idea. You learn by either having a pop up or googling, but you end up LEARNING them. That's the point, right?

Posted from Nexus 4. Jelly?

My problem with it is simply that it took me all of 60 seconds total to google all four terms and find their meanings. Sure, it might seem like a good idea, and I kind of like it too, but there's a dark side to it as well. This new generation of smartphone users that most of us old timers keep complaining about isn't going away and will only get worse. If they see an acronym they aren't familiar with and it drives them to Google for an answer, then I consider that a small victory. It really does blow my mind how many Android users there are out there now, but how few of them actually use the search engine when they have questions. Honestly, searching Google is far simpler than posting in a forum and waiting until someone comes along and feels like answering.

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/off topic rant (not targeted at anyone in particular)
If I had to pick one thing that frustrates me more than anything, it wouldn't be the penis meter, or the silly questions. It would be the people who use "being a noob" as an excuse. Even worse are those who try to deflect there problems by saying "remember when you were a noob!" Guess what, Sonny Jim; that's no excuse. First off, don't try to excuse your laziness by saying you're new. This is an extreme example, but you don't go to visit another country, then kill someone and get off the hook by saying you didn't know it was against the law there.

These same users don't seem to realize that, while yes, I was a new user at one point, I was not a noob, nor did I make excuses for my laziness. I didn't post for nearly a year when I signed up for XDA originally in 2006 or so. Even then, I was able to find answers to nearly all my problems or questions by searching. I learned how to give useful feedback when things went awry. I learned not only what went wrong, but I learned why it went wrong in the first place. I wanted to make my phone/PDA cool, but I also wanted to know what was making it cool in the first place.

I feel like the passion for learning is disappearing from this new generation. The majority of them don't care why things work. They only want it, and expect it, to work. This is a concept I cannot wrap my head around. Mommy needs to start making Little Billy work for his toys, so he actually gives a $hit when he breaks it.

I've been seeing comments lately about how if little Billy breaks his phone, he doesn't care, because he can just lie to Samsung, HTC, or whoever and claim a warranty repair. You know what happens when I break my toys? I man up, take responsibility, and buy a new one, because my dumb @ss didn't read enough before I flashed something. You know how many times that has happened to me? Zero.

Read until your eyes bleed, and search until your fingernails fall off.

/end rant

 

[KidCarter93]

I agree 100% with it being easier to Google things first. I've never understood why people will ask a really simple question on here (and other forums) and have to wait for an answer, when they could use Google and get the answer much quicker.

I haven't really had to ask many questions while being a member on this site for a few reasons.
1) I'll read around XDA before performing a task, if I'm not sure about it, so that way I know that if I experience a problem but I've done everything as I should've done, then I know that the blame isn't on me so either something randomly went wrong or the directions I've followed were incorrect.
2) I'll always use Google to find my answer before I even think about asking on here. I won't just do a quick search and leave it at that, I'll do what a lot of the more sensible members will do and I'll change around the search terms, refine my search down to select sites etc.

If after doing both of those, I still haven't found my answer, that's when I'll find the most relevant thread on this site and ask my question there.


And I loved the example you gave about killing someone. Not gonna lie, it made me LOL


''I used to be an open-minded person, but my brain kept falling out''

 

[cajunflavoredbob]

I think iam going to use the app bug to bump your count, i know you like it so much

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Me and my big mouth.

---------- Post added at 07:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:36 PM ----------

If someone is abusing the system, report them

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You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think! XDA, mobile wisdom, not a n00b feeding ground!!

This guy.

90% of his thanks are useless crap. I'm trying to find the thread he was in recently that brought this to mind. He made it a game to thank every single post of a certain thread. Unfortunately, I can't filter his posts by the ones he's thanked, only by the ones of his which other people have thanked.

 

[undercover]

Future prediction. Dumb users using smart phones. Smart phones become smarter than dumb users and take over the world. SkyNet Mobile.....

Posted from Nexus 4. Jelly?

 

[The-Captain]

Future prediction. Dumb users using smart phones. Smart phones become smarter than dumb users and take over the world. SkyNet Mobile.....

Posted from Nexus 4. Jelly?

Not really relevant to this thread. But I'd put money on that prediction, lol

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[cajunflavoredbob]

On the subject of noobs being noobs, I seriously cannot make this crap up.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33702341&postcount=6264

 

[M_T_M]

On the subject of noobs being noobs, I seriously cannot make this crap up.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33702341&postcount=6264

He's only being around since 2007....give the guy a break
/sarcasm

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[a.cid]

While I do agree that the acronym dictionary would be a good idea, imo it would be another way to spoonfeed the newbies who join up nowadays...
So I suggest a slight change, a compromise between "spoonfeeding them" and "forcing them to use google"...
Why not spoonfeed them to use google?
When, as suggested, commonly used acronym's like adb or cwm appear, rather than having a defintion pop up, why not have the text "Don't know what this is? Click here for the Google definition result" hyperlinked to the relevant search page!
This way, you subconsciously show the newbies that most of their quick questions can be answered by a Google search...and you do attempt to cut down on "what is adb plizz" posts...


"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you, Man and Knife"

 

[roofrider]

While I do agree that the acronym dictionary would be a good idea, imo it would be another way to spoonfeed the newbies who join up nowadays...
So I suggest a slight change, a compromise between "spoonfeeding them" and "forcing them to use google"...
Why not spoonfeed them to use google?
When, as suggested, commonly used acronym's like adb or cwm appear, rather than having a defintion pop up, why not have the text "Don't know what this is? Click here for the Google definition result" hyperlinked to the relevant search page!
This way, you subconsciously show the newbies that most of their quick questions can be answered by a Google search...and you do attempt to cut down on "what is adb plizz" posts...


"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you, Man and Knife"

That acronym or a similar thing can be a part of the xda university.
Not really sure what the university will offer.

 

[a.cid]

That acronym or a similar thing can be a part of the xda university.
Not really sure what the university will offer.

It could be a part of both...
I'm not sure what we can speak of xda-u in the public, so I'll leave commenting on this for the mods and admins concerned...


"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you, Man and Knife"

 

[Fallen Spartan]

Or people could google these acronyms

 

[a.cid]

Or people could google these acronyms

Wow, that would decrease 50% of the posts, and end the worlds hunger problems!
:silly:


"By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you, Man and Knife"

 

[Fallen Spartan]

Right, enough of the crap talk. Thread back on topic please

No, they aren't. Whatever, say what you'd like. That was ages ago, the game. And I contacted mods as an apology and a request to remove them if possible

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Problem with this is, you have 4600 posts. I am not going to waste my time going through all your posts to delete the useless ones. A complete waste of my time, plus I have better things to be doing with my life. If I thought you had enough useless posts, I'd rather just delete them all tbh. But I am not going to do that either. I hope, as you say, the game is over and your posts have since become more useful

 

[Mephikun]

Right, enough of the crap talk. Thread back on topic please



Problem with this is, you have 4600 posts. I am not going to waste my time going through all your posts to delete the useless ones. A complete waste of my time, plus I have better things to be doing with my life. If I thought you had enough useless posts, I'd rather just delete them all tbh. But I am not going to do that either. I hope, as you say, the game is over and your posts have since become more useful

Thank you, Fallen Spartan.

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[Chezbel]

You could always change the name of the Thanks button to "Press if you have a small one, Thanks". That would suddenly make an awful lot of annoying signatures suddenly funny, at least in a juvenile way...

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