[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
Search before you post

I preach and preach about this all the time, but it seems that not everyone is getting the message. Do some of you not realize that it takes, on average, 70% MORE time to post a question on this thread than it does to plug a few words into the search engine both on this site as well as a simple Google search. It is mind boggling that we consistently see users posting here with things like "I didn't have time to search," "I'm too tired to search," "I'm doing something far more important with my time...," and so on. When you post something like this, you are effectively telling every member here that your time is more valuable than ours. If you don't have time to search, then you don't have time to post either. We are not going to search for you while you go to dinner with your girlfriend. Do you not realize that we DO NOT get paid to do this? Every person responding to posts here is doing so because we enjoy doing so, and because we were once a first time flasher seeking help.

I do it for this very reason. I have been using XDA for years now on and off again. I went through 3 different user names over the time I've been with XDA. I would normally not long in for a while and forget my password and such, but I digress. Under this name I've been here since April, which is when I first got my TP2. I spent at least a couple of months figuring everything out, and flashing different ROMs until I settled on a few that fit me. When I had a problem, I SEARCHED and normally found the answer. On the rare occasion that I was unable to find my issue, I posted, in excruciating detail, my problem and device statistics so that no one else would have to waste time doing the leg work for me.

On the very FIRST page of this thread is a remarkable FAQ maintained by mmalka, who does a good job at keeping it up to date. If you read it through to the end, you will notice that there is a guide for what information to include in a post so that we don't have to take up space asking it back and forth until you give the answers we need to help.

Do we all see here that everything is covered? There shouldn't be anyone asking you to provide this information. You should simply READ. It is common courtesy to all of us that you follow these rules on this thread. It makes it easier to help you. You get a MUCH faster response when we know what you're talking about.

I don't mean to single out anyone at all by this post. I'm not even mad or anything. I'm simply trying to put it out there that if more people would follow these rules, we would have FAR less clutter here and considerably more positive responses from other members.

It's just too easy to do a search before you post. From now on, I'm not going to post answers to posts who haven't searched. It'll be the same thing if you post that you searched and then I find it in the first list of results.

Basically, don't ask like a n00b and expect not to get treated like one. You can be new to the forum and ask silly questions as long as you have done your own leg work. If something isn't clear to you or you don't understand some instructions that are posted, we will walk you through it, as long as you have followed these very simple rules.