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Noqoilpi
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9. April 2005 @ 21:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This has probably been suggested before but do 99% of Newbie's have advanced questions. They have no idea that there is a search. They think if they ask their question in the Newbie forum a Newbie will answer or nobody will know the answer. Why bother to have an advance forum at all.
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9. April 2005 @ 23:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey Noqoilpi,
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Why bother to have an advance forum at all.
That's because people don't read what they actually need to do. And they don't want to be bothered about looking for the answer and assume people think there question is like one-in-a-million.

You may want to vent on this thread:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/179389

See ya in the forums!

;)

"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves...VENOM"

Noqoilpi
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9. April 2005 @ 23:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I was just reading that thread. I suggested the search button to a Spanglish post earlier today. He thanked me a lot for the suggestion. He said I made his life much easier.
I did the movie tonight and really do not see what the fuss is about.
Of course I have never had a problem since buying DVD X Copy. Now you say DVD X Copy are you nuts. Well trying to make it work I found myself here many months ago. That solved all my problems. Three hundred movies later and no coasters.
A kick ass PC helps a bunch of course. ;-) lol

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9. April 2005 @ 23:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey, I hear that. I have never had a problem backing up a movie, about all 300 of them. Plus, I use a laptop, nothing fancy, and on TOP of that, hehe, I use Memorex media and have great success rate with them.

;)

"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves...VENOM"

Noqoilpi
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9. April 2005 @ 23:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I bought Memorex before I knew better. I used 4x +R which have a better success rate for Memorex. Yes I know about you and Memorex.
Right now I am using OPTODISC(R4) so I should not talk any sh*t.

Great here is a reward for sticking my nose into Spanglish. PMs

Newbies they may never catch on. As bbmayo said you should be 10% smarter than the machine or dont bother.
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10. April 2005 @ 00:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah, the whole Memorex thing got old after awhile. So I don't post much in those threads anymore. I already made my mark, and everyone respects me for being like the only one who pretty much likes them. But, eh, not important anymore.
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Newbies they may never catch on.
Nope...they sure won't! Sometimes, you have to "subtly" push them in the right direction. LMAO!!!

But anyways, no, they will never learn, however, we were all newbies once.

;P

"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves...VENOM"

andmerr
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10. April 2005 @ 02:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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I bought Memorex before I knew better
Another one who has seen the light!!!!

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I already made my mark, and everyone respects me for being like the only one who pretty much likes them.
yeah right, who are you kidding

Only joking venom

As to the initial post some people dont know where to place there post in the right forum, read the rules, use the search functions etc as its just so easy not to do it,but we persist and still try to help them anyway.

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10. April 2005 @ 12:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Search what? A newbie sometimes does not know even what to enter into the Search. "DVD won't werk with the srinker"....

Or it sure seems like an advanced problem when he/she gets a failed burn and he takes a look at a Nero log file.

Newbies are our main source of easy questions and lots of them! Our fun is getting them pointed in the right direction and making Senior Members out of 'em.



My website- http://www.dvdplusvideo.com featuring Guides by Alkohol, bbmayo, ScubaPete and me.
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10. April 2005 @ 12:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@andmerr,

LOL!!! Hey dude! I see you found me, yet again! ;P
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Another one who has seen the light!!!!
Yeah, I am glad that he is getting better dvd's with his new media, so that's cool! ;)
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As to the initial post some people dont know where to place there post in the right forum, read the rules, use the search functions etc as its just so easy not to do it,
Yup, I can agree with that...only...for some reason...if they LOOK really close they can see those couple little sentences that show the description of the forum. I mean, I know not everyone thinks the same, but good lord man, can't be that hard.
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but we persist and still try to help them anyway.
Yeah, I am starting to push the search method on new users now more than ever. I mean, if they do this, they will be surprised out what they find, who knows, they may even find something else that is cool and decide to give that a try. I know when I first started burning, I was looking around the ps2/xbox section wondering how they did it, and I have read so much info, that I won't even have to ask the question, because the answers are right there in the stickys and the threads.

;P

@fasfrank

You know what is so funny frank:
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Search what?
I wonder how they found this site in the first place. Not like this is promoted on the tv or anything. So, it would seem to me, that they would have to have been doing SOME type of search in order to find it. And so the plot thickens....LMAO!!!
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Or it sure seems like an advanced problem when he/she gets a failed burn and he takes a look at a Nero log file.
Yup...everything seems like an advanced problem when you first get it. Hell, I remember this from along time ago:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/149221

Before I did that, I did a search for that movie.
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Our fun is getting them pointed in the right direction and making Senior Members out of 'em.
Yeah, I can agree with that, I have seen that I don't post threads as much because any question that I have has mostly been asked countless times, or I do the research myself. But yeah, I think as the more you are here, you tend to search more than post a question.

;P

BTW...not sure if you or andmerr have seen the thread, but click on the last link under my sig.

Later!

"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves...VENOM"

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11. April 2005 @ 16:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Okay, I just pointed a "newbie" in the right direction. They posted on the Advanced forum because they stated the Spangish threads were closed.


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11. April 2005 @ 17:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Nice call arniebear!

I have now devoted all my time to sending people with general questions to either AfterDawn's search forum or Google.com.

So, needless to say...this has taken up all my time!

LMAO!!!

Thanks for all of you helping out!

;P

BTW...if anyone gets upset with a repeatitive question, just go ahead and give that person the last link in my sig! That will get their attention...or you can tell them to search for that thread!

LOL!!!

;)

"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves...VENOM"

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11. April 2005 @ 17:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ah, we shall all try and spread the word, hope that shield is protecting you out the in cyberspace.


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11. April 2005 @ 20:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
venomX05,
I could not agree more about using search functions available to everyone. If a question comes up that I want to give an answer to, many times I just pop up Google, find the answer and make the reply. There is no reason to remember the function and details of every single program and procedure if you know where to find the instructions. Many times Google leads right back to AD.



My website- http://www.dvdplusvideo.com featuring Guides by Alkohol, bbmayo, ScubaPete and me.

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11. April 2005 @ 22:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah, it is hard when you try to tell someone that there is a search function on aD and then someone comes along and just hands them the answer. With the exception of the MOD's. I guess this just goes to show that some people need to be babysat along the way and there are those that want to babysit them.

BTW...a little story just appeared on the Search Thread that I did, if you want to read it, just click the last link on my sig!

;)



"From now on we are poison to you Spider-man...Thats why we call ourselves...VENOM"

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Noqoilpi
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12. April 2005 @ 02:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just like the Report an offensive post link, you should so many post to able to post in the Advanced forum.
BTFSB
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12. April 2005 @ 11:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Maybe its time to clean out the garbage in the posts. Especially when someone writes in to remove all labels immediately and my disk won't play after a year. Come now discs are sealed and non-magnetic and do not degenerate digital files. It is all in the burn process. Most importantly most of the folks here do not know what a contiguous file really is and how it affects data transfer to the burners.
Noqoilpi
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12. April 2005 @ 11:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What?
andmerr
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12. April 2005 @ 11:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@ BTFSB:

WTF? are you talking about, you know this is


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Newbie status posting to DVD-R for advance users

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ddp
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12. April 2005 @ 17:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i think that is the 2nd time i've seen when BTFSB has pulled a stupid!!!
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12. April 2005 @ 21:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
as much as I hate it, every now and then a newbie does post a question that belongs in DVD-R for advanced.

Keep in mind newbies aren't the only ones who start a thread that doesn't belong in DVD-R advanced :)

andmerr
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12. April 2005 @ 21:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
personally thought he was only trying to get his post count up, or then again just look stupid.


Hey BTFSB which is it ??????


You should know better than to try and hijack a thread that you didnt create with an off topic comment

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Gringle
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13. April 2005 @ 12:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow guys 'n' girls; some powerfull emotions' out thur.

And some really great input into, the life of the average guy/girl,

who, unlike some folk we know about, enjoy the problem..


gringle 'on walk 'bout :)



PS... the usual missed 's' werote thangs..

El gringle..

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13. April 2005 @ 14:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
backed up well over a thousand dvd's and games before i ever heard of ad. its called reading and trial and error.
ddp
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13. April 2005 @ 16:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no it's called school of hard knocks
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Noqoilpi
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14. April 2005 @ 02:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The people that bug me the most are the one timer?s. Hit and Run. They ask for help, you answer, poof never heard from again.


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