[HTC Sensation] Tromador:
Meh.

This community is of a size and nature to have some very inflated egos and a very inflated sense of competitiveness. Although we are largely working with an open source operating system (at least here in android land), we are still living in a world where manufacturers by and large seek to limit user rights on the kit. This means we need people to hack the kit to get us root access and S-OFF which allows us to access the full functionality of the kit.

This places us in an unusual position. Although the OS is open source there is a definate side of the community which is similar to cracking and warez communities, which are very much about competitiveness and elitism. Anyone who has worked on or used an unofficial method to crack their phone (such as Rev) is cheating the system, running fast and loose with contract law. We straddle a thin line between being an open development forum and an underground cracking forum. There's no black and white, it's all shades of grey and the community and community attitude does reflect that.

The upshot is that you will have people like Show-p1984 who do a lot of work and (quite correctly) make their source code available and try to be helpful at once extreme and very secretive elitist and competitive people at another.

Of course on the user side, the Internet is the Internet. Sorry to be harsh, but live with it. Haters are gonna hate. Leechers are gonna leech. For every person who wants to help out a bit, there are another 50 who just want to freeload. It's amazing how people change when they can remain safely anonymous. The Internet is not an entity which encourages the polite social conventions associated with face to face interactions. People behave to one another in ways which they would never do in the "real world" for fear of getting punched in the face! This can be very frustrating and even puzzling to those of us who realise that behind names like "Tromador" are real people with real lives and real feelings.

As for SoM in particular, it's a very nice ROM and a very nice concept which is why I bought into it, way back when we were still working with the 3.5 series. It was the first Sensation ROM to bring in methods of customising the installation, first with Edify script and then the more powerful Aroma installer. Others have now gone the same way, but I take great pride to be involved in the innovative, "Your ROM, Your Way!". I'm glad development will continue.

I think you do need to step back, however and I am glad you are doing so. You spend way too much time on dealing with this. Up all night fixing a problem, then off to work with no sleep? That's pretty obsessive behaviour mate, there's more to life than a phone. I look away for two seconds and there's 3 new releases. I can't keep up with updating my phone as much as you cook new ROM versions!

Of course, there's no problem with being helpful, but people need to realise that when they make the choice to use custom ROM images, instead of manufacturer defaults, they are taking responsibility for themselves. That means posting good bug reports if necessary and making sure to back up known working configurations to which they can revert if it all goes wrong and above all, being patient.

An old post, but valid:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2031989&postcount=45