I know I'm going to get flamed and possibly reported or banned (or just ignored as a "troll" since what I'll say likely won't be popular), but I wanted to get this off my chest anyway.
This thread has gotten ridiculous. Many of the regulars post junk posts completely unrelated to phones all day, and whenever anyone says "could we hold off on some of the junk posts?" they all reply with one of the following:
- "No one's forcing you to read this, and we won't miss you when you leave."
- "The text on the first page says we can post anything we want. *but you can't."
- "Just ignore this guy, omg don't feed the trolls."
WTF guys, seriously. I don't consider myself an immature person but from where I sit there are a load of hypocritical folks here getting away with whatever they want because they've got "forum popularity". It's ridiculous.
Could we all just get off the "popularity train" for a few seconds and recognize that 1000+ meaningless posts does not make one user any more important than the next? If the most popular guy on the forum calls someone a f***er (or similar), hey, no problem. Everyone likes him. But if another guy comes in and states his opinion about fake images and says "don't be douches about it" or something like that, he gets banned? Hey, he seemed annoying to me too, but at the same time it seems pretty darn hypocritical.
Second point: what's the deal with all the info being withheld lately? Like one story "has been known since 3/25" but not shared until now, except of course via PM with some of the "thread's favorite users". Or another user who is commonly respected for giving good advice constantly dangles carrots out there to everyone like "I know a bunch of stuff...maybe I'll tell you later." Seriously? Just keep your mouth shut if you don't want to tell us, then tell us when you're ready. What are we in 4th grade? "nanananananaaaaaaa I know somethinggggg you donnnnnn't...." I thought we were all here for a common goal of sharing information about this rad phone?
Finally, enough with the unnecessary thanks. There are some users on here who could post basically anything in the world and it would get 40 helpful votes just because it's from them. "It's coming soon guys!" = 40+ helpful votes? I don't care who it's from, that's not any more helpful than what we knew back in like November when we first heard about the phone. The same post I mentioned previously ("I have information, I will tell you later") gets like 40 thanks as well. Why? Maybe we could save some of those thanks for the posts with the actual information, which would help some folks (like myself, who often skim pages for thanks due to all the off-topic bullcrap) actually find posts with the useful bits.
Ok, all of that said, I'm crossing my fingers for this phone just like the rest of you. Despite my personal issues with the thread, I'll still be here lurking and waiting...
<flame suit on>
