[About XDA developers] petermg:
WOW!! A lot of responses. The ones I agreed with I THANKED. And yet I come across ANOTHER thread where I find someone with the same problem and the ONLY DAMN response is a mod, who MOVES IT from the dev section to the Q&A section, even THOUGH there is NO WRITTEN RULE against posting a question thread in the dev section and it is CLEARLY not noob material being posted, but rather something a developer would work on. The MOD MOVED it, "reproved" the guy for posting it in the DEV section, and about two weeks later the OP posted what he believed would fix the issue, but he updated the thread out of wanting to be helpful to anyone else who had the issue. [It's coding stuff, over my head.] This is just lame. Devs can't post questions in the DEV section LOL!!! "but this site is for DEVS ONLY!!!" , then that would make ALL sections DEV sections.

I hate:mad: asking for help [I enjoy helping however], I LOVE figuring it out on my own, reading, etc.. There IS a TON of helpful information on here that if someone will just read the stickies will answer most noob questions. Then of course you have issues with a specific ROM, so the TREND is to BELIEVE that you must ONLY post a question about that ROM in the ROM thread, even though there is no written rule stating so. You try a ROM or three, and each one has it's issues, you've updated to their latest ones, still different issues arise. You use the search for the forum of your device, and many threads come back, but each thread has like 50 to 275 PAGES!!!! But that's ok, you just have to execute a separate search for EACH ONE until you find your answer. You start on one, and then it brings back tons of hits from that thread, you start reading them, but you realize your search string is maybe too broad, so you change it and maybe you find your answer, maybe you don't. You spend three hours reading searching for ONE ISSUE on a specific ROM, (at this point beginning to wonder how specifically ROM related the problem really is.) You try and try to read all the pages in the thread but after a while you just lose steam and try another ROM instead. Or you decide to post the question anyway in the ROM's thread and offer an apology if it's already been talked about, but often your question gets buried and never answered. So you can either PM the author of the ROM, or post a new thread in the DEV section specifically asking for help on the issue, which is NOT against the WRITTEN rules, which you, as a good noob, have read to make sure you are not violating any policies. Then you do just that and eagerly wait for the good folk of XDA FORUMS to help. Sometimes the noob finds just that, helpful kind responses to his issue and thanks them. Other times he is attacked by demons of the forums who think they are exempt from written rules to flame someone who hasn't broken any, as if they have. So then the poor noob looks to post further question in let's say, the Q&A section, but no one using that ROM, or especially not the dev of that ROM is frequenting that section so he doesn't get a solution. Or better yet, he posts in the Q&A, says I've tried this, that, and the other, showing he is experienced in matters relating to his issue, and no one in the Q&A section is hard core enough to deal with that issue because all the old skool 1337 devs are in the dev section and his thread goes unanswered. The poor noob loses faith in humanity and goes back to using a typewriter and telegraph.