[E 2015 Original Android Development] :
Posts have been reported in accordance with XDA guidelines, and I'm not making any further contribution/input to this forum.

I'm a grown man who expressed his opinion, a valid and reasonable opinion, just like others do all the time, I have learned that life is far easier and more rewarding if I respect others opinions, I don't always agree with them, but I do respect anyone and everyone.

If my opinion has really caused that much harm or offence, then I will not comment further, and state its never been an intention to cause offence or to deliberately upset anyone.

To the user who called me a purist....

I respect your opinion, but I'm no purist, I've made plenty of mistakes in the past and was a noob once.

I learned what i know now by people telling me to go away, research, search and read everything and NEVER to try a modification to a device i was not sure about.

Sure enough, I was soon the owner of a brand new Huawei Y300 paper weight!

I have never or will I ever claim to be an expert.

I'm no dumb ass either, plenty of people come here and do that all by their selves by displaying an inability to follow simple instructions.

The only fault I have if I'm honest is being too passionate about android/development/devices as a hobby, maybe far too passionate, if that's a problem to anyone, I humbly apologise.

I was until now, proud to be a long term and senior member of this forum, not only with the Moto E, but with several other devices.

These days, these forums are filled with rude, aggressive and demanding people from continents outside Europe and the US, and the rest of the world, i have nothing against these people, but i do not see this behaviour from European and US users, people are polite and patient, most of the time.

I've enjoyed endless witty banter and shared lots of laughs with many other users.

I state again, I have nothing against anyone, but why do some decide to bombard me with messages about a mod they have made that's gone horribly wrong???

I'm after all, just a senior member of XDA, i have no development experience

Yesterday, the user who posted he had flashed this r15c kernel on his surnia running CM13 messaged me demanding I fix his bricked device, and "my mod" has screwed his device up!!!

I agree with you we all have to start somewhere, and I never intentionally try to be an ass by having a go at anyone who has made a mistake.

People who just can't be bothered to take 5 minutes to read a Devs simple instructions are throwing caution to the wind and being disrespectful to the Dev at the same time, a Dev doesn't give any of us instructions for fun, he gives us instructions so we make the said modification smoothly, without any issues.

By bringing my experience to these discussions, and how I was treated by other XDA users over seven years ago when I was a noob, these days it seems people don't like being told right from wrong, or don't like someone older expressing a perfectly valid and reasonable opinion.

I was treated just the same when I was a noob, people laughed at me, told me to clear off and were rude if I asked a question.

All I have done the past few days is repeated the devs instructions, and XDA guidelines that some people these days blatantly ignore, just forget, or worse, can't be bothered to follow said instructions and expect others to put their carelessness right.

I am continually bombarded with private messages from many people calling me all sorts of names, using foul language I add, that a modification they have made has gone wrong, the most amusing for me was two weeks ago a young lad messaged me calling me an effing prick because resurrection remix didn't work on his moto e.

It turned out in the end he had flashed an XT1021 condor (moto e first gen) rom on his XT1524 (moto e 2nd gen 2015)

I am patient, happy to help and polite to all, even though I have got a lot of stick from other users for putting them right when they have clearly been wrong.

Ive been grateful to a few users who helped me a few days ago when my own moto e wasnt recognised in ADB or fastboot, something I admitted to not knowing about and made worse by my son installing a Linux distro on a windows PC, I couldn't solve this issue without help from fellow XDA users!

But, if I cannot have my opinion without being flamed, abused or told I'm being a purist, then I want no further part of this discussion.

I'm not sulking, or in a strop, in fact I'm perfectly chilled.

I'm 43 year old man, married with three teenage sons, working 70+ hours a week, who found android development as a new hobby.

The younger generation don't like middle aged people getting involved in this stuff, its embarrassing......

So I do wish you all well, I've always respected each and everyones opinion, however much I've not agreed with it.

Bottom line, I don't want to get into arguments/difference of opinions/slanging matches with people 20-30 years younger than me, I have far more important things in life to worry about, rather than be upset and annoyed that people much younger than me can't respect or accept a reasonable opinion.

I was always taught to respect my elders, but these days, that doesn't seem to apply, anywhere in this world.

I have not thrown my moto e at a wall in temper, but even though i will carry on with testing and development of this kernel and roms, I will not be making any further comment or contributions to this and I'm now putting this matter to sleep permanently.