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Even though many of the issues raised in this topic are different from what the topic OP's actual concern is, I think they do revolve around a common goal. So I am addressing each concern/suggestion discussed earlier in this topic: Buy/Sell forum Members with less than 10 posts will not be allowed to post new topics in the Buy/Sell forum hereafter. In order to...: ...prevent members from falling prey to sellers who are looking to take buyers for a ride... ...cut down on the increasing number of topics by sellers whose sole intention is to get some attention to what they are selling... ...cut down on members who are trying to "utilize" the forum for their own money-making venture... ... all Buy/Sell topics will be reviewed by a moderator irrespective of who posted the topic. The topic post and the member's post history will be analyzed during the review and will be approved/unapproved based on the decision of the moderator. The criteria used to decide it will be on a case-by-case basis depending on the post content/member. If you come across a Buy-Sell topic that you think is questionable, then please use the "Report" button. As suggested by a few members, a dedicated moderator is required for Buy-Sell forum and so I will be taking care of all the Buy-Sell forum topics/posts. Buy/Sell topics/posts in View New Content Some members have pointed out that Buy/Sell topics/posts should be avoided in View New Content as most members are not interested in reading buy/sell topics/posts everyday. IP.Board does not have an option for per user setting to avoid a particular forum in the View New Content results. However we are fortunate that a 3rd party extension exists which does exactly that and it has been installed in the forum now. You can see this new option in "My Settings" > Forums > Block Forums. You will be able to select here which forum(s) to be blocked in the View New Content results. This is how it looks like: Moderators Old moderators who aren't active now have been pruned so that the Moderators team page would look current. I have decided to invite all members as moderators instead of individual moderators thanks to the concept of "community moderation". The "Report Center" in IP.Board 3 was introduced towards encouraging all members to help moderate the community. A moderator may miss a post that needs attention, but thanks to the reporting feature any member can now report a post to a moderator easily thereby making it an effective mode of moderation. Some members are already using this feature which has helped a lot and I am thankful to them. So I request all members to help in moderating the community using the Report feature if they come across any inappropriate post or need changes to be done in a post/topic. For those who haven't noticed the Report button, it is located at the bottom left side of every post: All new members are already on forced moderation by default until they reach a certain number of posts, and that will continue. Sadikk I heard some concerns regarding Sadikk from some members even though they did not name him directly in this topic nor when they communicated with me regarding it. However they need to get their facts right as what they "thought" or "heard" or "assumed" were incorrect. Sadikk is also eager to contribute more in the future and get the "seller only" tag away when I discussed with him. hiteshkkk ...has been banned now. Techie Enclave As per the suggestion of few members, the Techie Enclave forum memberships have been revoked for all existing members who had access previously. A core group of techies have been added for now in the Techie Enclave forum as a start. New members will be added to the Techie Enclave forum based on invitation only. You will receive the invitation without requesting for it and that would be a recognition based on your technically oriented posts which you contribute to the community. So please do not request for the access, but you will definitely receive an invitation based on your contribution which will be like an incentive. This is the only way I can think of for directly addressing the core issue raised by kshah, even though the other steps done will also help. I consider kshah's concern as more of an open request to all members to contribute more technically oriented information. Policies or rules are not going to help but it is encouragement for those members that is required. If there are other suggestions on how to encourage more members to do that then please do share so that I can consider it.

This supposed loss of revenue is a very myopic way of looking at things! In that case, we should still be paying Rs. 15 or so per call... which used to be the case around when the mobile revolution in India started. Worse was when BSNL/MTNL were the only options and they actually thrived and profited by milking us dry and providing abysmal service. Govt. is the worst bloat-ware in the land. They should reduce their need for revenue and increase efficiency and SHRINK... instead of looking at things this way and s**k more blood out of us.

Sorry was away for a few days on a family function and could not answer the alleged remark by this one forum member who has leveled some serious allegations towards me. Though I do NOT want to disturb the positive direction this thread has taken, but I do feel the need to clarify certain allegations that this member has made against me and hence would like clarify certain points :- 1. I would like to begin with by saying that Mr. Sanjay Sharma called me and initiated all the discussions that followed. I did not even know Mr. Sharma but he referred about this forum and spoke to me about getting a Hero from abroad and I asked him whether he had the necessary technical expertise to crack it and he said NO. On seeing the lack of it, I asked him to get it locally from Mr. Sadikk. He told me NO, HE WOULD NEVER BUY FROM Mr. SADIKK as he was a Two Timer (which were his EXACT WORDS) and keeps giving him separate prices. First he gave him 1 price and then another. On hearing his dilemma and ON HIS REQUEST ONLY, I told him, that I do get handsets FOR MY FRIENDS & RELATIVES ONLY and if he was interested I may try for him. HE IMMEDIATELY JUMPED WITH JOY on hearing this and requested me to give him a best price and I told him I am not into this for ANY PROFITS, and as the current handset prices have increased and the handset is available for anywhere between 300-350$ + Shipping by Bluedart (another 50-60$) + Customs etc. and the price would come to around 17-18,000/- WITHOUT ANY PROFITS. I did not GIVE HIM A FIXED PRICE AT THAT POINT as mentioned by him. HE HAS COMPLETELY SKIPPED THIS ABOVE SAID PART OF THE DISCUSSION FROM THE ALLEGATIONS HE HAS MADE AGAINST ME. He was so overjoyed that he told me that he is ready with 2 connections immediately and maybe more later. I told him SPECIFICALLY that this is not my profession and I just do this TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT OF GOOD QUALITY HANDSETS for my FRIENDS & RELATIVES. Also I told him that as he had said 2 connections this should be confirmed as FREIGHT CHARGES WORK OUT TO BE CHEAPER in 2 rather than 1 handset. And YES, I DID TELL HIM NOT TO DISCUSS THIS FACT THAT I CAN GET HANDSETS FOR OTHER PEOPLE BE MADE PUBLIC, for the reasons - - as I do not do this professionally - I did not want to be swamped by requests from other forum members to procure handsets for them - I did not want the CREATE A WRONG IMPRESSION that I am standing in competition to any Seller I was doing in this particular case / or have done this in the PAST, ONLY ON SPECIFIC REQUEST OF SOME FORUM MEMBER, just to help him taste these foreign handsets and NEVER TO EARN PROFITS. And THIS IS THE CREDIT I GET for helping such members. He had ALREADY CONFIRMED THE 2 HANDSETS TO ME, and the fact that he is saying that I asked him for 2 handsets is TOTALLY WRONG. I had not even mentioned 2 HANDSETS TILL HE SAID THAT FIGURE TO ME. 2. He repeatedly SMS'd me and CALLED ME. And the TONE OF HIS SMS/PHONES was such as he was talking to SOME SELLER and not to a FRIEND who was just helping him procure these imported handsets. This had started to irritate me, as I was trying to DO HIM A FAVOUR and whacking my brains FOR HIM, as to how to get him a GOOD HANDSET at BEST POSSIBLE PRICES, and he was repeatedly SMSING ME, asking me for better prices as if I was in this thing for some profits. So YES, THIS behavior ON HIS PART, had already pissed me off. Then he CALLS ME one fine day and straight away tells me very matter of factedly, that he now wants ONLY 1 Handset and not 2 as his "FRIEND" had backed out citing the reason of DEALING WITH UNTRUSTWORTHY NORTH INDIAN. Now If all my esteemed members had heard THE TONE, in which Mr. Sanjay Sharma had said that sentence, if he was standing face to face from me, I would have really conked his *** OFF. I would like to remind Mr. Sharma, that I have got a very full fledge bustling business of my own with TURNOVER IN SEVERAL CRORES (not lakhs). I am SORRY I have to divulge this fact to my dear forum members, which i have never disclosed before, in what may seem as a self gratifying stance, but let me assure you all that it is not. I am on this FORUM for the specific reason that I love this forum and the technical interaction I have had over the several years that i have been on this forum. And to see such a TWO TIMING person ACCUSE ME, I do seem to have lost my patience to deal with such people. At that point of time, I did loose my cool and told him that I will NOT BE ABLE TO GET ANY HANDSET FOR HIM. He said that if he gets the other friend agreed would I get the handsets for him? I SPECIFICALLY REPLIED, That Mr. Sharma, I AM SORRY AND I DONT WANT TO DEAL WITH A PERSON LIKE YOU, and even if you want 2 or 10 handsets, I would NOT BE ABLE TO GET THEM FOR YOU, as you are TALKING TO ME AS A SELLER and NOT AS A FRIEND. HE HAS CONVENIENTLY ALSO SKIPPED THIS PART FROM HIS REPLY, that I had refused to GET THE HANDSETS for him all together whether 2 or 10, due to his rotten behavior. He then subsequently SMS'd me APOLOGISING, that though he did not understand what he had said wrong to me on phone (such people NEVER DO REALISE), He would like to remain MY FRIEND. And I think, in that also was his OWN VESTED INTEREST, as he would be requiring HELP FROM SOME TECHIES, as he would NOW have to GET THIS HANDSET from some other source and at a higher price. On receiving his SMS, me in my own simple natured way thought that he might be GENUINELY FEELING SORRY. What did I know that such a scheming and plotting person are NEVER GENUINE. So I sms'd him back, that OK, i might get him the handset but only if they were 2. As I had already surveyed for him and it was only possible for me to give him in my committed price range if there were 2 handsets as then i could save on the handling and forwarding/custom charges for the handset to reach India. Subsequently next day, I also got a call from another of my friends, who already committed for 1 hero (and whome I have since already got that Hero for). So again in a PURE GOOD NATURED SIMPLE WAY, without any MALISE or ILL FEELING, I sms'd this gentleman that if he so desired i can even get him 1 handset (THIS WAS JUST TO HELP HIM PROCURE THAT HANDSET, which is the first priority in my heart for my rimweb friends) as I have got another friend who wants a handset. He subsequently never answered back and RAN STRAIGHT TO SADIKK, and confirmed the handset from him. NOW, just the other day, I got a call from Sadikk who informed me in a normal good natured way what type of BUYER's HE HAS TO DEAL WITH. Now, at that point of time both me and sadikk did not know about what person we were talking about. He informed me of a BUYER, who confirmed a handset from him for 19.5K. When his person went to deliver the handset to him at some public place where he delivered the hero to this buyer in a car. The buyer handed this person of sadikk an amount of 19K and SPED AWAY IN THE CAR, before he could confirm from sadikk the final amount etc. This had BOTH OF US LAUGHING OAO, and when I asked him who this person was, it turned out to be the GREAT Mr. SANJAY SHARMA. The same facts can be confirmed from Sadikk by ANY FORUM MEMBER if he so wishes to. NOW, judging from all the above facts, I leave to all the forum members to DECIDE who the GUILTY PARTY IS? It does leave a BAD TASTE in mouth when any person like me who spends his time mostly helping other people (including some on this forum also) is made to look like a cheap skateboard. I sometimes ponder whether this whole exercise I do is having any positive consequence or is worthwhile at all OR that I should quit this all together. But then I also realise that when you have helped hundred's of people, there will always be some sour chillies like Mr. Sanjay Sharma who will also be mixed with all the good people I have met through this forum. I believe in basic goodness of human kind, but there are exceptions always. Now, I also see that this Mr. Sanjay Sharma has been a member way before I was, on this forum, but have hardly seen him post anything worthwhile on this forum till date. He seems to be mostly getting information from this forum without giving any substantial feedback back to it. Now, in view of the above facts, if YOU, the FORUM MEMBERS, decide that I am at fault, I am willing not to post any more on this esteemed forum for ALL TIMES TO COME. But it can ONLY BE DECIDED BY YOU, the general populus and NOT by some arrogant snob. I leave it at that.....

i dont know weherever there are discussions like these , some people get into cat fights directly or indirectly but lets try to be on topic so that it doesnt loose its momentum on a side note @arun dont u think even the moderation needs to be reviewed most of mods over here are initial members of rimweb , hardly any late entrants also some of them are inactive now , or some come to this forum in spurts of 2 3mnths only a few mods are active now we need to change with time may be i should start a new topic abt this sorry for off topic querry , but since we are asking to change some policies of forum i want to know the suggestion of members abt this also

one of my forum friend got a tp2 he send me the handset for programming so i had tp2 with me for almost a week believe me its one of the most sluggish wm phones i have seen plus everytime i used to use my fingers i always ended tapping wrong icon , and the response time was horrible infact even my freind who bought the tp2 was of same opinion , even he told me its very very sluggish its a brick , heavy , my hero felt so so lighter in front of it only thing i liked was the keyboard , the keys were spaced and quite big like calculator keys thats all i will never vouch for tp2 , as i didnt find it impressive enough i dont like sluggishness my palm pre felt so much faster and smoother than tp2 u can swtich between gsm and cdma by click of a button ,so thats not an issue the build qualiy is good buit tp2 failed to impress me

I think its high time to start a uniform licensing fee..The maths done in the column clearly show who is making the most of the present policies..Ever since the Pramod Mahajan days there has been going on a bias in whatever is done with the policies.. Whether the question of limited mobility to full mobility or the question of dual-platform.. No wonder one company can offer sms@1paise and extra extra talktime and the other 10 local mins@Re.1