***** NEW JTAG/Homebrew Tutorial *****

Hay guys, a friend of mine has written an excellent and easy to follow tutorial for the JTAG/Homebrew hack. Everyone that is interested in this hack should check it out *removed*

 

thanks for the post jpizzle I hope this tut helps you guys.

cheers

 

i am currently practicing my soldering, man I want homebrew

 

I removed the link from sig but I dont think that you should remove the link from my post. Its a good tut and will help a lot of people. I asked the writer of the tut if I could post the tut on AD and he asked me to just post a link to it

 

so let me get this right.....we cant post a link to a great tutorial where guessswho is an admin at...but yet we can regularly post links to xbox-scene, or robinhoodsplayground, or any other site as we see fit (even though several of us are members/admins there). sounds like a fair treatment to me....

 

WOW. Can't wait to see where these idiot mods do to this site in the year 2010. Who is the site admin? You never did share that? Don't you guys know you ruin this site for others? I love how some people are allowed to post direct links...but when it comes to another members site you cry. Why do you care? You say you don't get paid for this right? Why not let everyone have fun? Stop playing mommy and daddy and let us get a long. I am on other sites and they don't cry at every little thing in your sig, etc.

 

actually we are discussing flashing a lite-on back to stock.....lol

 

This is my opinion...

I've personally stayed out of this, and not posted any links to that site myself (nor have I told others to do so) specifically because I was afraid of some sort of issue like this. If this issue was spread across all forum posts, then I would probably just stay quiet, however, said site seems to be the main focus and I that makes me think I should have a say.

First off, I'd be willing to discuss this with any mods, but I do hope you are willing to read my response with an open mind.

First, I am not advertising the site. I have taken down all links as requested, and not made threads about anything, even when I think I was certainly being singled out, I still complied. However, I feel that linking to said site by other members and it being censored out is a step across the line that never should have been taken.

There are plenty of threads, not only in the xbox 360 section, but over the entire forum that point to outside sources. In fact, I would even go so far to say that almost half of the threads on AD do. Reason being, while we are all certainly smart individuals, not all the brightest minds are on this site, and therefore are on external places.

When a good, effective guide has been written on an external source, I don't think there should be any repercussions for pointing to that source to get the guide. It's the original area, and people can go right to it (if necessary). If one site is to be censored, then I highly expect all sites to be censored, and not a single external link allowed on the forum.

Now, if the external site being linked to only had advertisements, was spam, a "Hate AD" page, or something like this, then it would obviously be very reasonable to expect that link to be taken down. However, I did see the post that Jpizzle had originally made (without being told in any way to do so by me) and I did not think that there was anything wrong with it. The only thing he linked to was a good post on how to jtag your xbox 360, nothing else.

In fact, I've actually gone out of my way, when I've caught posts linking to said site (before any of you mods had seen it) and told the poster to change the link/take it down strictly because I was afraid some unfair treatment was going to happen, as is now.

Bottom line is, where is the source that people are still going to to get their information? It was right here, on Afterdawn. While a post linked to an external site, the users still had to come here, to Afterdawn, to get that information. That's one great thing about AD, is it allows its forums to be used as a way for people to post about the best information/guides/hacks/mods/etc. that can be found on the internet, regardless if it is on AD or not. It's a site that people can go to find good info.

If you choose to single out websites that aren't doing hate sites, or anything of the sort, but only being a source of a guide, then honestly, that's just wrong. This is/would be like the beginning of the downfall of Net Neutrality.

If we're going to follow the rules, it needs to be done across the board. If it is a site that's being linked to which contains a guide on how to do something, or the latest news on something AND it DOES NOT act as some spam or hate site or anything like that, then you have to be fair and allow it. If the members don't like the site, then they can post it in their comments on the thread. But to take it down would be against the simply just unfair treatment. Thousands of other threads link externally, and they are allowed. Probably to worst sites as well.

All that's being asked it to be treated the same as everyone else, and to let the members decide.
That's really what this site is for... is it not?

 

yes, you were pretty clear, especially the part where if guesswho is admin of a site, then that site is immediately disregarded as a source of knowledge?