[Galaxy S II Android Development] PantsDownJedi:
EDIT: Hey I think I quoted the wrong person. In any case, I'm leaving the post. Disregard it if it doesn't apply to you; I guess it does illustrate laziness that I didn't fix it properly, though, and in doing so it sort of validates both sides of the coin. The person that I started off upset with will be able to figure out who they are. Its not really about pointing fingers at the end of the day anyway. I hope this isn't too much audacity on my part, for you luizlee86.

Its often very difficult to find what you need and, for example, I was reading through ... I don't know exactly, but it took over an hour.. recently when the flame wars over Rootbox happened (just for example but and not for being specific), to make sure I was up to date on any bugs people were having and their fixes. Further to that, the search function doesn't always yield the results I want because I often find I'm using the wrong keywords in relation to how the original poster described something, or more specifically posted a fix.

Many people are of course going to not search and not read on a daily basis, which makes it near impossible to find a fix when downgrading in particular, but being harsh about it doesn't help. Its not too harsh to point out the search function but comments along the lines of "Did you even bother to search?" are counter-productive in contrast to "I hope you searched first, I had to do it for you; here's the link" or "I know someone posted it, try the search function" or even just a link to the proper result along with a link to the 'you're a newb' video.

While doing the various pages of catch up, reading the thread, I came across one post in particular slamming people in general, not just one person, stating that the work is done for free and that if you (I) donate, then I don't have the right to be rude . I haven't been rude in this thread. I'm not sure I've ever even been rude on this forum. One thing I'm sure of is that in this thread I've only opened my mouth (keyboard) to be helpful. Not to ask for features, not to ask questions. I'm honestly a little apprehensive about asking for features because it would piss me off if I was in the developer's shoes. I don't like, however and regardless of it being a generalization, being talked down to and being told "you don't have the right to be rude" or reading negativity in the format of other's being told off in a blunt harsh manner regardless of weather its feature related, fix related, or off topic about how someone got such high benchmarks on a kernel that utilises implementation of JB features on the S2.

All the breathing space has been sucked out of the thread and I'm feeling it regardless of not being an offender. What really got me sticking with JellyBam initially was awesome support in addition to good battery life in contrast to other builds as I had previously tried before flashing back to ICS. The support was simply incredible. Its a shame that "open" software got flamed so dramatically and egos got involved, so perhaps I am simply looking at aftermath of this. In fact my comment here isn't directed at the JellyBam developer at all; he's gone above and beyond in the past and still does all things considered. What pissed me off was being told, as if I was a child, that I don't have the right to be rude because I already know that. To add salt to the wound, I have supported this project by donation more than once and have contributed to donation of the graphics regardless of using a great deal of them after flashing updates (latest bootanimation was cool as hell though; I happen to have a favourite one from way back though, but WOW! on the latest work).

So all that said, I have now actually brought negativity and complained. I would hope though, that we can try to be more positive. When I don't know the answer to something I hold my tongue. When I do, I link to the page if I'm able to find it. If I can't find it... well I don't remember that specifically happening but just saying that its back some pages and that the search function might help is enough; there's no need to be a jerk about it.

As for me, now, I was initially very irritated when I started writing but feel better. I was going to say "I've found the daily that I'm happy with and thus won't donate in the future" but that's very juvenile and narrow-minded. What is more accurate is to say that I've found the daily that I'm happy with and I hope that people treat me more respect that what I've been observing if I update at some later point for a must have feature or whatever other reason and find that reading through all new posts would take half of the day. I know very well that much of the negativity was put in motion not just by harsh answers but by pestering requesters and more importantly by egos when everything is either open sourced or all stolen from the same place anyway (Google apps and mods to them).

It may be that its the same person asking over and over for a non-vibrating lock screen (for example), and I have to admit that I initially felt a little annoyed when it happened because I felt he might be a harassment to development, but it is also the same person over and over that is losing their patients more and more after recent events. I've had my say, I'm no longer angry and that happened in the course of typing this, but I do still feel ... well I now feel a little bad that anyone is suffering stress. I found that I had a problem with someone and that it was me that needed a chill pill, but that isn't to say that I'm not offering a chill pill in the form of a girly hug at this point (I'm not a girl). So perhaps its just something to thing about.