[About XDA developers] Tribulattifather:
As a moderator I understand the position that XDA was in when figuring out what needs to be done in this situation.

And as an RD I value the position that of, "those whom shall not be named."

Now I'm not going to complicate this thread much more than it already is but I do feel that XDA 'shot themselves in the foot' (Please don't shoot me, team,) when they created the RD, RT, etc.. program. What I mean by that is it created a false sense of 'betterment' in some people. I wish XDA could go back to the days when I first starting developing on here, like in 2009- But it can't... So we must find a way to stray away from the banter and figure out a way we can all coexist again like we used to before all of this. If we do not then we will create segregate territories here at XDA. We will start to deteriorate from within. I sure as hell do not want that!

I'm going to describe some of my past here at XDA- I first started on this site in 2007. I wasn't a user yet. I was a long time reader before I created an account, like most of you. In 2009 I finally decided to contribute some of the work I did. Now here's where things get sketchy but understandable. Everyone here didn't care about what was being shared as much as now ( now why is that I wonder?). I helped create ROMs for my old TmoWing/Herald. I borrowed stuff from Erv and from Ivan and they did not mind because it was denoted back then, that if you post here on XDA, that it was meant for users to share.

Then in 2010, I started to develop for the HD2 and but didn't share my work until later on that year, closer to 2011. Now people were starting to care about what was "theirs" and what people used. I joined a group called Team Blue Droid as a beta tester at this point. I was really excited to be apart of a team for the first time (now teams.. there can be pros and cons to being apart of team). I decided to show my hand at porting ROMs for the HD2 Android section. Here is where I did something I hadn't realized. I 'kanged' TBD's ROM. Now I had not even realized I was doing it at the time. I used their ROM as a base for my ROM without asking. But what I never understood was why it was considered 'kanging' in the first place. (Now ask yourselves: Where do people get the files to make ROMs.. HTC? Google? The other manufacturers?) The point is that anyone who has created a ROM cannot say that it is "theirs" because they did not create the files used in "their" ROM. If you have, by then all means I will put my foot in my mouth.. Anyone who has created a ROM has used tools by others to create the ROM, have used files from those of listed above and have used a "base" in some form that was probably not "theirs." So I do regret ruining a friendship between TBD and myself, but I do not regret 'Kanging.' Because I don't believe that I really did..

I think the same principal can be applied to the situation at hand.. Where were the original files coming from for these tweaks to be made..

I am posting this for food for thought, but, I do not want to create a whole new debacle. I am just trying to state that the idea of kanging is bogus. So with that said, why don't we try to figure out a way to get past all of this..