The XDA Portal (also known as the front page or blog of the site) is hiring experienced writers who can write several posts per day about development activity in the XDA forums.
To apply, send two sample articles to willverduzco(a)xda-developers.com. Articles should be approx 200-300 words each, and should prove that you can dive deep into the forums to find newsworthy content. Also, make sure we haven't posted about it before.
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Ok well I'm looking for some good quality authors who can bring some good stuff to my blog.
**Link removed**
It's mostly about Android but I'd like to make it do with everything technology related. From product reviews all the way to interesting graphical work.
I need someone who will be dedicated and who can help get more and more visitors on my blog.
I've had my blog for only a month now and already got over 70000 views, a lot of the visitors on my blog are from this forum but I need visitors to come from all over the internet and from a lot of different forums.
If you think you could help me get my blog out there or would like to become an author email me and let me know.
[email protected]
Am I right in thinking that any link on that site generates revenue for you?
Please confirm.
WB
Nope not any link.
Only the ads.
Thread closed as the soliciting for paid work on the external site and the nature of the site itself constitutes advertising a commercial site/service which breaches XDA rule 11.
WB
I am not new to XDA, but do to me trying to learn and observe I am characterized as soon. Yet, I have been giving to the Community as a avid tester and user of the process, without causing negative harm. Yet, the developer site does not allow me to post or comment without regard to the ten post rule. I think this is a fair rule but needs a bit of tweaking. If a member has been on the site for over a 12 month period without punitive restrictions should have other ways to gain access to the site. I have donated to developers on numerous occasions and will continue to do so. Yet, because I am not in accordance with the guidelines as they stand, I am currently Banned. Yes, that is the correct way to describe my situation... Banned not restricted because new users are restricted. I am not a New user but one that have used more of the individual develop's site versus XDA and now being punished. I know some of the keyboard heroes will post nothing but negative crap, yet I will respond with the appropriate reaction.
Moved to About XDA section.
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I am not new to XDA, but do to me trying to learn and observe I am characterized as soon. Yet, I have been giving to the Community as a avid tester and user of the process, without causing negative harm. Yet, the developer site does not allow me to post or comment without regard to the ten post rule. I think this is a fair rule but needs a bit of tweaking. If a member has been on the site for over a 12 month period without punitive restrictions should have other ways to gain access to the site. I have donated to developers on numerous occasions and will continue to do so. Yet, because I am not in accordance with the guidelines as they stand, I am currently Banned. Yes, that is the correct way to describe my situation... Banned not restricted because new users are restricted. I am not a New user but one that have used more of the individual develop's site versus XDA and now being punished. I know some of the keyboard heroes will post nothing but negative crap, yet I will respond with the appropriate reaction.
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It's not the fact that the site is punishing you, it's just that at the time of this thread, you were within the restriction limit. And the correct term is actually restricted because if you were banned, you wouldn't be able to post here Although I do realise what you're saying.
I can pretty safely say, from reading what the higher-ups have written on this kinda topic, that the 10-post rule will stay and there will be no way to work around it, other than making 10 constructive. 10 posts isn't hard to achieve if you help people out around your devices specific General and Q&A forums and also in the General section of the General forum and About xda-developers.com forum.
But as you've already made 12 posts, I don't really need to go into too much detail.
I hope this helped, atleast to some degree
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It's not the fact that the site is punishing you, it's just that at the time of this thread, you were within the restriction limit. And the correct term is actually restricted because if you were banned, you wouldn't be able to post here Although I do realise what you're saying.
I can pretty safely say, from reading what the higher-ups have written on this kinda topic, that the 10-post rule will stay and there will be no way to work around it, other than making 10 constructive. 10 posts isn't hard to achieve if you help people out around your devices specific General and Q&A forums and also in the General section of the General forum and About xda-developers.com forum.
But as you've already made 12 posts, I don't really need to go into too much detail.
I hope this helped, atleast to some degree
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I will read up more on the topic and appreciate the response
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Your first visit to xda can be daunting to say the least, that is why as part of a new project here at xda forum member RainbowLaw was inspired to become a guest writer for the portal.
In his featured article he discusses how to find your way around the forums, a bit on the attitudes and philosophy here and just what GPL is. If you are a new member be sure to take a look, hopefully learn something new and leave a comment on his feature. As for long time members be sure to drop by, show your support for your fellow forum member and maybe direct a few new members there when they start their own journey!
To read RainbowLaw's feature head over to here
Have something interesting to say that you think deserves to be featured on the portal, read about becoming a guest writer here.
Hey,
First time in a while i used the XDA Homepage and not Tapatalk on my phone to browse the forums.
On the right side a saw this "Real life review" between General and custom roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/review
Seems to be knew on XDA?
You can rate the threads which will result in an overall rating. You can even comment the specific topics with a short review
As the most viewed topic had about 140 views i guessed that this feature is not really well known. Most other are about 25-40 views.
The front page is completely unhinged. Many articles come off extremely sponsored or the very least are pointless and filler. Sponsored posts are fine but mark them sponsored. The front page is the first thing people see and tells you what kind of site you are visiting. It feels less like a developer site and more like a general tech site as of late.
The disqus section is littered with bots. Do what other sites do, limit new commentors first few post to moderator review before they can be seen. Don't have anyone to moderate the front page comments? I'll do it.
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@MikeChannon
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The front page is completely unhinged. Many articles come off extremely sponsored or the very least are pointless and filler. Sponsored posts are fine but mark them sponsored. The front page is the first thing people see and tells you what kind of site you are visiting. It feels less like a developer site and more like a general tech site as of late.
The disqus section is littered with bots. Do what other sites do, limit new commentors first few post to moderator review before they can be seen. Don't have anyone to moderate the front page comments? I'll do it.
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@MikeChannon
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@a.cid Sir, above might be of interest to you.
SyCoREAPER said:
The front page is completely unhinged. Many articles come off extremely sponsored or the very least are pointless and filler. Sponsored posts are fine but mark them sponsored. The front page is the first thing people see and tells you what kind of site you are visiting. It feels less like a developer site and more like a general tech site as of late.
The disqus section is littered with bots. Do what other sites do, limit new commentors first few post to moderator review before they can be seen. Don't have anyone to moderate the front page comments? I'll do it.
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@MikeChannon
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All sponsored posts are posted under the Author "A word from our sponsors", and the social media posts around them are marked as [ad] too.
The others are not sponsored.
Filler -- feedback noted. We have changes upcoming to the front page that will give less visibility to filler content. The unfortunate situation that we are in is that filler content is needed if we are to have a fighting chance with Google and how SEO works. It may appear as filler to you, but it serves a purpose. Our authority content (stuff like regular news, forum content, apk teardowns, reviews etc) will not have a chance at performance if such "filler" content did not exist.
Re: disqus, this is a fresh spam wave that happened this weekend. I've cleaned up the section, banning multiple hundreds (yes, hundreds) of spam accounts. The wave has been rather relentless, and what you see is after me cleaning the sections up thrice over the weekend. To outsiders, it may appear that we aren't doing enough.
Re: limiting comments -- these accounts are actually 230+ days old in case of the sock puppet comments and 30+ days old on the main comments. They also have a bunch of comment activity. So unfortunately, our existing spam filters (we already have a fair few in place) are unable to catch it. We're exploring more means to get it under control. This happened over the weekend, so give us some time to assess solutions.
-- Aamir Siddiqui, Editor in Chief, XDA Portal
@a.cid
Thank you for the indepth response. Again if assistance is needed let me know.
Sorry I didn't tag you initially, I misread your title as retired for the Portal Team, not moderator
The spam comments issue should now be under control, fingers crossed!