every forum should have a disclaimer video like that when signing up

sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
edited March 2012 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">who wants to read stuff when you could watch a movie</div><center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JmvCpR45LKA#!"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JmvCpR45LKA#!" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
<div align='center'><b>☑</b>I have watched the XDA "Noob Video" and agree to abide by the xda-developers rules.</div>
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  • playerplayer Join Date: 2010-09-12 Member: 73982Members
    Felt an inclination to punch the narrator.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    No. Forums should not begin by insulting new members with condescending rantings in a whiny voice. It sets the tone to "asshat." Nobody wants the tone of their forum to be "asshat."
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    That was quite possibly the most obnoxious introduction to something I've had the displeasure of seeing. If I saw that on the forums for a tool I wanted to use, I'd genuinely just switch to another software rather than put up with the kind of developers who'd publicize that attitude :/
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  • sheena_yanaisheena_yanai Join Date: 2002-12-23 Member: 11426Members
    yeah, thats quite some arrogant crap, but i like the general idea guiding people with a video instead throwing a wall of text at them
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    Personally I prefer reading over watching videos. They're just too slow.
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    HEY THIS FORUM HAS 150,000 USERS YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL BEAUTIFUL SNOWFLAKE


    seriously dev forum with 4 million users? How many are active? What does this forum think it's dogsonacid.com or something
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  • SopsSops Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17894Members, Constellation
    Already done years ago without the asshatiness
    <a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting" target="_blank">http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting</a>
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1920116:date=Mar 31 2012, 05:24 PM:name=Align)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Align @ Mar 31 2012, 05:24 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1920116"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Personally I prefer reading over watching videos. They're just too slow.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I need to kill fast and bullets too slow!

    Also another thing that'll surely motivate people to abide by forum rules: enable the search feature for registered users only!
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  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    to be honest, perhaps the easiest way to do it is to wrap the search aspect into the 'new topic' function.
    You type in the title of what you're going to post and it does a search on that title.
    If it finds any decent matches it goes "the following threads already exist that may cover that topic. click any of them to reply in those instead" then at the bottom there's a button to continue to make your own new thread regardless.

    this gets around having to explain the rules to people ( a good system ultimately needs no manual :P ) and helps curb people's tendencies through the power of convience and laziness :D
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  • TemphageTemphage Join Date: 2009-10-28 Member: 69158Members
    How about: "If you need a video to tell you how to search a forum, you shouldn't even be allowed to use the internet in the first place."
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    especially on a forum that caters to development of phone firmware... If you are developing software for a phone I would hope you are semi computer literate...
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    You're silly Sheena, the only new people we tend to get are bots!
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