[Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] lulzBoB:
Hey I get where you coming from but here are some points I just still can't get over on a personal level and can't agree on:

1. The way of handling it. Making a "social experiment", and I a way punish the users who care for the community and actually try to make it a better place but lol nah it was for the lulz bb.

2.To use another devs name in it WITHOUT saying anything to him. I can't believe people don't get how bad this damages a reputation and is not OK what so ever on a human level.

It was said even in this thread how bad it is that people act on the internet in a different way than they would in real life. So why is it OK here? No one SHOULD do such things to other people in real life so why do it here?

If you would tell a story in which a teacher "Anderson" f*cked a little girl and then after a week say lul it wasn't Anderson it was smith dressed up as Anderson, there will be already spray painting on Anderson wall: 'kill the rapist'. Maybe with this metaphor you will get my point.

You say people have different points of view. We also have different education / come from different places. So I just can't agree with you on the point "haven't disrespected". I believe it was low on a professional and human level, atleast that's what every part of my educated body tells me. You wouldn't do this kind of stuff to someone you work with in real life so again why is here OK?

3. I don't get your point of the kernel work being bad? Where do you get it from? Please explain it to me. I've read so many times prebuld thermal is bad but it seems its just people repeating others. Every time I ask someone he can't explain it to me. WHY exactly. Why can't it work ever? Because if if I look at your reputation you yourself never did something similar did you? You compiled some existing sources with "a hack" and that's it. So where does your knowledge comes from? (no offense I'm just proving a point and yes I see all the permission commits you posted from purecaf, again just proving the point.)

We all agree this place got worse but don't want to use the standards we try to force on others, on ourselves. We say its sad there is only rebranding, of other work but if another dev comes who tries something new he gets drained down in sh*t. I just don't get it. Again in the end I think I'm just disappointed by the devs as human beings (was disappointed by the trolls from the start).

PS: Fun fact about calling things bad / things can't work. I was around in the good old HTC M8 time. There were some devs who claimed they ported H/K (Harman Kardon) without the needing s-off. Which basically was considered impossible. So a lot of people called them out and said how sh*tty they are and started to give them a bad reputation for all their work. Well one of the guys was topjohnwu (yes the dude who made magisk). Needless to say H/K worked like a charm.

Again I don't want to offend anyone. If anything, I want to make this a better place, and I strongly believe this "experiment" was not the right way to do it. I also can't accept the easy way out of leaving everything behind so here we are.

Best regards and have a nice day.