[Hero CDMA General] phenicks:
Thank you Hilaireg,

Believe it or not most of us actually do want to be civilized. MY problem and way that I could have handled myself differently is that I don't like involving authorities. I know you guys volunteer, and I know you work your tails off maintaining one of the biggest online forum communities.

Especially in an environment where the worst that can happen is someone gets offended or gets their feelings hurt I am not likely to call tattle tales on someone for being rude or obnoxious. Those things do typically work themselves out.

I got carried away and became, frankly, relentless with an individual who I have tried to ignore since I joined last December. His arrogance, ignorance and obnoxiousness had become unbearable, it was either give him a taste of what we all put up with, leave the forum, or tattle on him to the mods. If his threads hadn't been cleaned you could go back and read the history and see that I tried to reason with him. When that didn't work I tried treating him like he treats others and I should have expected he would run for cover and in doing (intentionally or not) make himself out to be the victim.

The problem is if I were to report this irritation any given post would make no sense to you regarding why I reported it. It would only make sense as part of the 1000+ posts of similar nature that you would see the trend and see the stuff we collectively ignore, most of the time. And if I were to report 1000 or 100 or even 10 posts I would feel like a whiny cry baby who cant handle myself like an adult when in fact I have relatively successfully behaved my age for literally months. Sometimes the best way to stop a child from throwing a tantrum is to throw one yourself and show them how silly they look when they throw a tantrums.

I think I can speak on behalf of most of the community when I say we want this to be a place to learn and share AND LAUGH. WE LIKE MAKING JOKES, It's when people disrespect the community as a whole that our humor becomes directed and focused and sometimes mean.

We get tired of hearing the same old crap EVERY DAY. Even if its new crap its still the same old crap, its just says "2.1" on the package now.

Could I start ignoring people so I don't see their posts? If that's what this comes to then it's not worth it. I am not easily offended, and typically not easily irritated. If it gets to the point that I just cant stand it and I have to block someone then I will just as soon head for the door because at that point I have bigger problems than being offended by another forum member.

I have no doubt things will level out.

The alternatives are that the bullcrap of late continues indefinitely (not gonna happen), noone else buys a cdma hero and comes here to learn about it AND the forum dries up and everyone thats already here goes away (not gonna happen either).

I think the mods misread some things lately, but with the size of the xdaforums.com and the barrage of gray-area behavior I am not the least bit offended I got banned nor am I surprised certain threads have been locked or deleted (except gunnyman's "whats your age thread", that was a good one).

I would also like to address some sentiments that have been shared regarding the general section....

It's a general section. I know there is an off topic section in the main forum but is it completely unacceptable that we have a little fun the the cdma sub forum? Does EVERY thread really need to be ON TOPIC-ALL THE TIME?

I sincerely hope not.

Staying on topic in the dev, theme, app and q&a subs should be expected but shouldn't those of us who have gotten to know each other in the CDMA hero forum be able to joke around in the CDMA hero forum?

Can we ammend the name of the "General" section to "General/Off-topic" and agree to keep it relatively clean and respectful?

Thank you and all the mods for the time you put in. Thank you for taking the time to try and understand where we are coming from.

And Thanks to those members of the forum who are here to help, learn AND have a good time.

Sincerely and also Respectfully,

Nebenezer