[General Topics] ShinySide:
So I don't want this drama in my feed but someone sent me a link to this, so made a new account to bring some things up about some topics and rant a little. If a mod has a problem with it go ahead and message me and Ill tell you exactly who I am and you can ban me or remove my tag or whatever, I really dont care. So Heres my 2 cents

Im gonna touch all 3 of these topic in one rant:

What was xda once? Xda was a place for people all around the world to bring ideas together and execute them together and combine ideas to better our POS androids from back in the day. Anyone from the 1.x or 2.x days know exactly what Im talking about. Our POS half a ghz processor 512mb pos of sh!t devices that froze and bricked in a blink of an eye. Now go back and read the second sentence of this paragraph. Now lets talk about what XDA is today. A pissing contest. A pissing contest of who posts the system dump first, who does this first, who does that first, and yada yada. Then probably 95% of people that are tagged as devs are complete assholes that think they are gods because they have a tag. Complete assholes to users, to other devs/"RD", users, and have the "Ha Im badass and figured it out/did it on my own so go f off and you figure it out on your own". This place was built on a bunch of nerdy ass people coming together and saying hey dude this sh!t sucks lets see if WE can better it. If you want to know what happened to XDA its that right there. XDA is what the Arch Linux forum is for the linux distro sites. A bunch of asshats with god mentalities that not only put a poor taste in users mouths and steer them away but also people that actually know their sh!t.

What should mods do with "annoying users"? Nothing. People annoy me daily and guess what theres this handy little ignore user button that Ive fallen in love with. I rarely ever waste mods time anymore since I started using that handy little mfer.

Should donations be accepted? Nope. Money isnt why I started tinkering with android. Do I have a donation link? Yes. Not because I want money for messing around with crap, its because I kept getting annoyed with people asking if I had one. And heres a fun fact, $190 USD got sent back to all the people that donated to me at first because I didnt verify my paypal knowingly. I dont care about the money and never expected to get paid for tinkering with crap to make my own device more mine and help others. If youre in it for the money/donations youre apart of the problem xda has become. The asshats and f everybody else because if its in my rom and I ***** that no one else can use it then Ill get money and thanks for it! I have literally seen users and RDs close threads because they didnt get enough "thanks" or donations.

Should someone ask to use something? Of course. Anybody that has ever approached me asking to use anything, file, apk, kernel whatever Ive ever done on xda Ive told every single one the same thing. That I could care less and you dont need to ask anymore in the future just dont claim it as your own and give credit. I tried to make something better for myself/the user so why wouldnt I share it with Joe over there to put in XYZ to have even more people benefit from it? But nowadays everyone is god and HEY THATS MINE DONT USE IT AT ALL!!!

Xda has become nothing but a pissing match. Its not a community of nerdy ass people helping each other better something for all of us anymore. Its a who can get this out first and seem like the badass on the forum even tho its janky and buggy as hell but that doesnt matter because i was first!!!! I got the most thanks and donations!!! Do you know how badass it'd be to be a community again? You jump into a forum and see X amount of devs working on one or two projects together, your finished product is badass, everyone is gaining knowledge, passing it forward, progressing the development. But instead its 50 roms of the same sh!t with the same bugs and bullsh!t as the last.

/End Rant :p