[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
@AbuYahya

Thankyou for your considered and intelligent reply......surprisingly I do agree on many points that you make!

As stated in one of my earlier posts,I am not against the principal of a best Rom thread, which is why I volunteered myself to keep an eye on it.

I will add this though.

Even in the relatively short time I have been a member, there has been a fairly dramatic shift in the demographic of users from enthusiastic people who are willing to undertake "the journey" towards people just arriving in the forum, having not read the rules, familiarise themselves with the forum layout or made any attempt to read and acquire basic knowledge.

These people tend to kick the door down, demand answers and when they get rebuffs, they turn hostile and abusive.

In any forum here there are people that day in, day out give their time to answering questions, I consider myself one of these people.

Like the others that fall into this category, sooner or later "battle fatigue" sets in, you tire of repeatedly answering the same questions, especially when you see the same question answered over and over again, and yet people still fail to do the most rudimentary of searches.

I consider myself a pretty tolerant person, and I have stood by when people have insulted me for trying to steer people in the right direction and encourage them to read and search, even though I haven't displayed any brevity or rudeness myself.

I have worked tirelessly to try and promote the spirit of XDA and its ethos and principals, also providing support for other regular helpers when people attack them or are rude.

I do this out of individual responsibility and the fact that as a non developer I can give little back to this community other than that.

I also do this to try and set an example to those younger and less experienced than myself. I have also dedicated a lot of time to fostering a community spirit where people laugh and smile together and in turn fall over each other to help.

The success of my strategy was clearly demonstrated when I was asked too look after certain Rom threads (insanity sgs1/slim sgs1) which went on to be fun, community centred threads where the phrase "read back a couple of pages" was accompanied with good humour and tolerance, and accepted as such.

To that end I will say that that is my primary mission here.

Unfortunately, as a community grows, so does the number of people that don't want to fit in and abide by the principals......and this is sadly been the case in this forum.

However, thanks to a rearguard action by the dedicated and regular helpers the tide seems to have been stemmed to some degree and things are a bit more settled now.

As a community grows it is inevitable that it morphs to accommodate increasing numbers. However it does not mean that the underlying principals are abandoned, "making the journey" being one of the first and foremost principals here.

If we can convey this to newcomers then half the battle would be won and life would be much easier for all.

However I stand by one of my earlier comments regarding how detrimental comparisons could be to up and coming, but less experienced developers, the very people that the community should be encouraging, rather than putting pressure on.

As for the end user like myself, well this community isn't about them, never had been and never will be, thankfully.

I made the journey, have learnt huge amounts in the process and thoroughly enjoyed the process. If people haven't got the time to read and learn then they haven't got time to sort out problems when they occur, hence they shouldn't be messing with things they fundamentally don't understand.

When they get in difficulty they panic/need their phone/take their anger out on other people.

We, the people that have made the journey then become the target of this discontent, despite trying to help.

I could go on, round and round in circles but the fact remains that until we can get rid of this insidious attitude best Rom threads will continue to fall on their own sword!

In this case I admit to being "a man without answers or solutions".....just opinions!

Apologies for straying far and wide on this post, I'm just trying to illustrate where and why my mindset comes from.

Regards slappy :)