[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jangst123:
IF YOU WERE GIVEN A LINK TO THIS THREAD BY ANOTHER MEMBER OF XDA IT'S PROBABLY FOR A GOOD REASON!

PLEASE HEED THE WARNING, TAKE A LITTLE LESSON IN POSTING ETIQUETTE, BEFORE YOU ARE REPORTED TO A MOD, IF THAT HAS NOT ALREADY HAPPENED.

Far too often people post in threads without thinking of the developers feelings and it's becoming a big problem!

Think of it this way!

You just spent countless hours working building your new custom car.

Now your such a nice guy you let people take it for a drive and check it out for FREE!

How would feel if they come back and most LOVE IT and appreciate the work you've done but,,

some say..

"It uses too much gas"

"It's way too slow"

"It hesitates when I tow a tractor trailer"

"I Hate the colors"

If you were the developer sharing your hard work for free and reading comments like that, you would think, Dam What a ^%*&%^*& *&^*&^, why am letting people trash my hard work!?! Heck with this, I don't need this!

THINK A LITTLE BEFORE POSTING!!

In stead of saying

"This ROM sucks the life out of my battery"

Try

"How is everyone's battery life on this? I'm getting 10 hours with 2 hours screen on time. This is my 3rd battery cycle, I'm on WIFI 90% of the time. I installed BetterBattery Stats and it shows xxx. Any recommendations / ideas? Also did A Clean with a full wipe, did not flash and mods / kernels" Even better add a Logcat, you may find in the logcat that X app is checking your location every 2 seconds and shows up 1000 times in the log.

In stead of saying

"This sucks! Every time I open the camera it crashes"

Try

"Is anyone else having this problem? For some reason every time I open the camera app it crashes. I tried redownloading the ROM, double checked the MD5, did a clean install, full wipe, and let it sit for 10 min after 1st boot then rebooted. Attached is the Logcat I grabbed using CatLog from the play store"

Look at that! That way your not assuming that the developer messed up! And you may actually be being helpful by providing a Logcat so he can actually look into the problem.

Making statements without providing information is,, well rude and not helpful to anyone!

And worst of all, it can discourage or drive the Developers away!

If you were smart enough to be able to make your own ROM - Kernel you would not need the Developers help, and could fix it yourself!

Most of us do not have the time and or brains to be a developer!

So PLEASE show some respect to the Developers that are kind enough to share their work with us for FREE!

Hit their Thanks Button often, and consider buying them a Coke or Redbull aka Donate :highfive:

Same basic principal goes for when you reply to someone!

IMO if the question has already been asked and answered, quote the last answer. Or the part of the OP with the answer.

Better yet quote a few of the last times the question was answered and show that you can use the search feature.

To me, if you can show me the question has been answered 3 times already, I feel like a fool with egg on my face and will STFU.

Smart comments and rude answers, even just saying, use search, usually just leads to more useless comments and bickering for all of us to read through!

If you ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say anything! Just move on

Next time you see someone posting like a jerk, try to provide a nice helpful answer and direct them to this post for a little lesson and consider reporting the post!! See next post for more info!

Please get with the program or expect to be reported and possibly banned for a period!

This includes asking or hinting at an ETA! Don't do it!

On that note here are a few words form Woody about reporting trouble makers :D

And for crying out loud please learn to Logcat! There are apps for that that can make it easy.

Plus in my never to be humble opinion, if you can't logcat, you should not be flashing anything!

Also read this!

And I recommend reading the following from Recognized Contributor TonyStark

So you are tired of being called a noob - I want to shake the noob status

First and most important, read this New User Guides