[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Very important:

Respect the rules of XDA.. post like you thought about it, not out of rage.

I do not want to promote/help this guy.

There is a fine line between this and simply informing people.

I think the latter is worth the risk.

OP was cleaned up since its getting so much attention now :)

5/17/11 synopsis:

The Android Community rallied. A lot was accomplished. But, we haven't succeeded.

Make Wednesday even better. Tweet, write articles and submit them to sites, post on facebook, just do something.

Site was/is down... but because he took it down for maintenance. Not his ISP shutting him down.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED FROM OUR EFFORTS (And growing....):

UncutAndroid published it first, they tell it how it is and let users speak their mind.

AndoidSPIN Much respect for them too!

Voice Of Android Found me a new site!

RESULTS?!?!

His site is currently down...

Our developers (some who have not been around in a long time) and some who used to feud are ALL working together

and of course the below work...

Thanks to the community and XDA user andyharney we have ("You are" is directed at akaskriller, obviously):

WAIT, WHAT'S GOING DOWN?

Recently in one of my guides, a user who apparently did not understand the intent of the thread, starting going off on me that my thread should be deleted... and started singing the praises of AkaSkriller. I thought this guy was a thing of the past. Nope, he has only gotten bigger.

Most people know this guy is a Fraud... he takes the work of our developers (roms, themes, free/paid apps and posts it on his site... behind a $5 donate wall ( $5/month for ACCESS to others work ).

Read some of the below posts where developers have already posted conversations with this guy.... it's sad panda time here.

Not enough, read the lashing he took trying to "apologize" *fake/lying*

Master (Axura ROM) stated that he spoke with AkaSkriller about removing his ROM and he was told he would simply edit the build.prop as to be a different ROM... as if by editing this, it was somehow no longer Master's work!! Since then, there are just more developers supporting this....

This outraged me. I truly respect ALL of our developers, and this is just ONE example of probably 100's where this guy and his site have taken advantage of those in our community who are NOT familiar.

Sooooo........

I propose we do ANOTHER #NeverAgain Twitter campaign where we send out tweets telling people to not use this guys site... we inform people the $5 "donate" for access to files is absurd... and we try and point people to sites like XDA!

A place where we are truly geared to helping our developers/community

(not to make money off noobs).

Here is his site. I only link to it so you can see just how absurd it is. DO NOT give this guy any of your money.

ACTION:

Send out a tweet about it...

Post on your Facebook about it....

Email or send a tweet to other Android sites and ask them to tweet about it....

Sample Tweet (copy and paste if you like):

Sites requiring a donation for access to others work is wrong. Read this: http://goo.gl/l7vSO

I realize some of you think this is crazy/pointless. But it bothers me to have an element like that in a community I really do love.

And yes, I have a "Donate to Me" button. Only because someone volunteered to give me a donation before I had a link.

I've received MAYBE $30... imagine how much I could make on a site like that (near 600 thanks and I am NOT a developer)!

lets play the "I see $5 this many times" game... Maybe just a "thanks button" would work? Nagh, lets make a whole section.

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