[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
This is my usual stance as well, but also include the report action.

By self policing I didn't necessarily mean snap back, mostly report so mods can delete.

You keep saying delete the thread, as if an end user has that priviledge, but we don't. It's easy to say, but harder to implement.

Back to the mods babysitting, even through the report function it may take some time for them to get to the thread, based on availability and priority.

Meantime, you do nothing and it's like a wound untreated, and just festers growing continually worse.

What can you do? Some people passed the patience threshold a long time ago. Those that say nothing are percieved to let them just run rampant.

Threads like what this started as, and the ones we are discussing are real blows to morale and interest.

I used to dedicate at a minimum my first half an hour of every login to trying to answer or find answers to questions people have, and help them get themselves straightened out.

Anymore, it seems that most of the questions asking for help are just from people like the discussion is about

If I open the first thread, and it's a question asked all the time with the answer in a sticky, I'll move to the next.

If the second one is too, well, anymore that's as far as I go before I just log out and find something else to do.

It used to be that i'd end up spending several hours over that dedicated first 30 minutes typing up detailed replies and explanations of why people were getting into the problems they were and trying to help them understand how Android works under the hood.

That would get me all juiced up and i'd flow into hours of dev, manning the irc channel and just immersing myself in the doubleshot.

Now... Well, when those first couple of questions are like what this thread is about, it just saps my motivation, the very desire to learn that puts me at the keyboard for so long.

The people replying with smart-ass remarks and garbage are just as much to blame for keeping those threads at the top of the list as the ignorant people who started them in the first place.

Given that I am starting to catch up with myself at work and having free time in blocks of hours to work on Android stuff for the doubleshot, more often then not I sit down all ready to work on something fun and new, just to find myself walking away from the keyboard somewhat depressed and disappointed instead.

A large part of my desire in working on projects for the community was to help people get more out of their device by delivering stable, working software and encouraging education and learning.

Those that want to be spoonfed are winning, I've been recently choosing to do other things then even try to browse the forums here.

I dunno, it's like I went into life to handle some things and start a much more enjoyable and higher paying career. Now that I'm settled in and can spend time back here again, it's like I don't even recognize it anymore.

They say you can't go home once you've been away, because while you may be in the place you once called home it won't be that anymore when you get there.

Never thought in a million years i'd feel like a stranger in the doubleshot forums, but here we are and here it is.

It's kinda made me sad to write this.

Sent from a digital distance.