Stickied "I bought device y instead of a tablet" thread
 

Is anybody else tired of the never ending "I'm so self-centered I think everybody needs to know which device I've decided to use, and exactly why Nokia's tablets suck" threads? I am, and I'd like to see them gathered into a single thread we can just ignore instead of dozens of threads.

So, can we get a stickied "Yes, I think people care what I spend my money on" thread much like the N810 review thread and end the nonsense?

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I second the motion.

Re: Stickied "I bought device y instead of a tablet" thread
 

You can effectively shorten this title to "I am bitter now".

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i wonder, is there a central forum for competing products where people pop in and talk about why they got their N8*0 rather then product x?

or is this a ITT fenomena?

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I don't have a problem with threads in the "Competitors" section giving actual user experiences on device X, compared with an N8x0.

But not all the threads are that well formed...

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Nothing else has the untapped potential as the n8x0.

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I'd be very interested to know why this happens so often here on ITt. Is it entirely unique, or can you find it on Zaurus forums, or iPhone (spit!) forums?

Perhaps there's an historical precedent to be found in previous platforms that developed fanatical hobbiest communities around them, such as the Amiga?

What about Mac forums? This has gotta happen there a lot.

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we don't get it so much on the zaurus forums, partly because they're a lot quiter these days, and in its heyday there really weren't (m)any serious alternative(s). the Z officially ceased manufacture early 2007, but Sharp carried making small batches till beginning of this year, so now there's virtually no new stock. Thus not many people can actually say I bought something else instead of a Z.

we do get people who leave and get an eee, sometimes a MID, sometimes a Nokia tablet, but many hang on to their Zs and use them for other purposes (me, for example). I think if the 810 had a better keyboard, we'd have had more defectors.

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Although I haven't been a regular member of a whole lot of forums, I've been a regular on a couple mobile-technology related places, most notably 1src and Brighthand, and I would have to say this is extremely abnormal.

I can't remember a single instance, not one, where a non-regular member has posted about buying an alternate device.

It just doesn't make sense. What would posses a person to join a forum and post, most likely a single topic, of why they didn't buy the technology/device that that forum is dedicated to?

Strange...

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Formatting can be increased with active moderating and guidelines.

I think it is a good thing people are able to compare with competitors, but we need to keep the signal to noise ratio high with the flames low. The way GA describes the example in his post is pretty flameish; however not all posts of this type are flames.

Double threads are a no-no, so its better to centralize them. So there could be 1 thread for people who bought an iPhone instead of a NIT, not 3 or , 5 or 10. (But 2, at some point, because the older one is old or full, makes sense.)