[Galaxy Tab 2 General] Caldair:
WTF Happened in the CM10.1 thread today??

I get home and there's like 40 new posts and everybody's all fired up...

My 5 cents('cause there's no penny in canada anymore):

It is one thing to report an issue and ask for support. This can be helpful and constructive.

It is completely another thing to make demands of ANYONE here. No one on XDA is getting paid for anything that they are sharing here. They do this for one of two reasons; First if you are doing any work XDA Forums are a great troubleshooting tool, even if the final goal is to turn a profit, as a user/tester you get to use their software

free

, its win/win man. Second you may, like me, just love trying new things and challenging what is possible even if you do not own the device, and your only reward is knowing "I did it".

When users make demands instead of useful posts it does make one feel much less like sharing. I have been a member here since 2008 but my first post was not until 2012 because between the search function and being able to make certain leaps of faith there has not been one time that I couldn't find the answer, even if it wasn't the answer I was looking for (I think of it as gaining "The Knowledge" to where I felt my opinion was valid, but that's my own hangup). To my point, I was too nervous to share anything I had created because I felt like two things would happen. It would be ridiculed and torn apart due to my lack of knowledge, and whiny "users" would rain all over my parade, pointing out the most miniscule flaw.(Never even mind, demanding that I fix it!) I personally think I have never been the first person to report a bug on anything I have tried. I assume that it is my own lack of knowledge that has led to the failure and set about trying to solve MY problem. I will admit that when reading a thread with a post reporting a problem that I too have experienced, I may chime in to report that I am in the same boat, but only if it can be accompanied by advice as to how I am either working around it, or on it. If I've got nothing constructive to add a simple click on the "thanks" button of the original post reporting the problem is enough to let most OP's know that another user shares the issue.

Please can we all just try to keep our posts constructive and honest, keeping in mind the nature of the forum which you are posting in.

The snippets that were left after Siberian Tiger cleaned up were still enough to paint a pretty terrible picture. For a short time today this was not a "Community" in any way. And users need to know that if they will not act as a member of a community they will quickly find themselves unwelcome in it.

Blah! That got too wordy, sorry. And thank you if you actually read this far. And sorry again because I know that reads condescending and I feel a little like a DB, but its from the heart. I still kinda feel ****ty, usually writing makes it better...

Love XDA, and xda users. I have seen some pretty amazing developments over the years, impossible is nothing here.

Chris

Edit: I just want to add that codeworkx latest CM10.1 with ketut.kumajaya's oc'd kernel is my best android experience yet, on any device. Book it. That's the collaborative nature I'm talkin' about! Thanks again.