How NOT to treat Team Kodi or any of its volunteers
#1
From day to day, we get all sorts of questions from our various Kodi users who need our support on various aspects of the Kodi application.
Some questions are more complex than others, but we always try to be helpful wherever we can, as well as whenever we can.

But then, there is this gentleman. It's an example of what we can get in our mail inbox. As a peek behind the scenes.

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Over time, we've had our share of people who think that this is the best way of getting their wishes through to Team Kodi. And yes, we had a good laugh over this one.

Please treat your Kodi volunteers in a way that you would like to be treated yourself: with the right respect and dignity. All those volunteers are people too.
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#2
He must be trying to watch Movies for free on his 'Kodi Box' that you sold him Big Grin
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#3
Obviously American, using the word faggots.  As English people will tell you Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal. Mind you that sounds like John Watkins.
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#4
No cure for dumb.
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#5
If that is what happens in a Team Kodi member's mailbox, and what we do see in the garbage bin from time to time - I'm honestly surprised that the Kodi project hasn't upped sticks and just get released between Team Kodi members only - and if you did do that I wouldn't be shocked at all!

So all I can say is Kudos to Team Kodi for keeping going through everything you have endured over the years, whatever you are taking to keep on going, could you please point us to the site, because from here it looks like some real strong stuff Laugh Laugh Laugh.

Seriously though, I for one am pleased that you haven't upped sticks, and am grateful that you guys have made Kodi publicly available. So once again, thanks guys!
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#6
That's charming indeed.
You might want to obscure this young gentleman's address as well for his sake ..
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#7
To be the better man would be to just refer him to all these related blog posts which try to explain what Kodi does not provide:
  1. https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-builds-stre...ee-lunches
  2. https://kodi.tv/article/having-issues-fr...tv-streams
  3. https://kodi.tv/article/we-do-not-sell-hardware
  4. https://kodi.tv/article/in-defence-of-our-good-name
  5. https://kodi.tv/article/warning-be-aware...ou-install
  6. https://kodi.tv/article/piracy-box-selle...lling-kodi
  7. https://kodi.tv/article/is-kodi-legal
  8. https://kodi.tv/article/freedom-of-choice
  9. https://kodi.tv/article/beware-killer-kodi-boxes
  10. https://kodi.tv/article/selling-pirate-b...ev-journal
  11. https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-trademark-t...den-battle
  12. https://kodi.tv/article/repos-when-all-o...-be-no-fun
plus

https://kodi.wiki/view/Free_content

and

https://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_ru...acy_Policy

as well as 

https://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_ru...ed_add-ons

By the way, might be a good idea to have a permanent webpage under "About" on Kodi's kodi.tv website that summarizes all these PEBKAC/PEBCAK/ID-10-T issues related to piracy addons, free content, and pre-loaded boxes?

Anyway, if he replies again then just be rude in kind and tell him to contact his reseller if he wants his money back! 

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#8
Everyone has all kinds of attitude behind a keyboard. Post this on Reddit or 4chan or something. I'm sure they have some idea's on what to do with this person's email address. Deserves whatever he / she gets. Stupidity should be punished and subsequently mocked and laughed at.

*EDIT* To be fair though, we are all guilty of it at some point, sometimes more than once. Can't be too harsh. Person is just uninformed. Sadly making a fool out of themselves due to it.
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#9
Pretty professional and tactful to post snippets like this, I've come to expect stuff like this from Team Kodi
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#10
(2020-09-09, 17:10)ohhwee Wrote: Pretty professional and tactful to post snippets like this, I've come to expect stuff like this from Team Kodi

I think you too are missing the fact that no Team Kodi members are by definition not "professionals" here, because Kodi is a non-profit hobby project and they are community volunteers that AFAIK does not earn them any money.

Professional means that you do the job as a profession to earn a living from it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional

Kodi can practically be seen a community service (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service) made up a group of individuals as an unpaid voluntary act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteering) for the benefit of everyone. Just imagine you volunteering to work for free at a not-for-profit organization in your spare time and someone who receives a service from your efforts without having to pay for it contacts you specifically and calls you those things.

Community spirit surely applies between fellow community members, but professional ethics standard practices or moral obligation do as such not need to apply, especially not to people violating the communities code of conduct
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#11
Well we all know the saying:
If you can't find anything nice to say about people SHUT THE FU Smile sry about that, well his spelling is above average, he does seem to be a bit upset perhaps his mom is calling for him and its time for a nap but he wants to stay up 1 hour more
He does seem to have a gender issue, meaning he knows you are males but seems to think your all transgender and homosexual and also have the female reproduction organ
hmm how would a person look if that was the case
Well we should be polite towards people who only use 1% of the brains ofc he seems to be using his small VERY small penis or perhaps he does not have a penis but a vagina and is confused with his sexuality 
poor him

Never the less tell him to upgrade his kodi because if he is getting movies from the 1800
well it never hurts to upgrade and i am sure he will be very happy with the latest kodi ofc if he wants to view watch movies from the 2020 YOU PAY FOR IT
meaning go to the movies get a subscription to c-more get netflix and so on 
thx for writing us
BTW YOUR BANNED FROM OUR FORUM
oh sry i have a wicked side and sometime i just want to do as i please write as i think explode yell!!!
okay enough the poor fellow never learned the basic in asking for help or behave BAN HIM wops
well fun mail sort of fun to read as an outsider crap to read if you spend all your free time on making kodi and also have to read that kind of BS
thx for listing
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#12
Unfortunately him and his kind are very likely to re elect a person of similar intellect come november  Sad
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#13
(2020-09-11, 20:12)ontap Wrote: Unfortunately him and his kind are very likely to re elect a person of similar intellect come november  Sad

Well i will not reply to your views they are yours and besides the last time i mentioned Mr Donald Trump in a mail btw i am from Denmark and was a bit upset with him in regards to his "My way!! or i press a red button and Scandinavia is obliterated NOT Greenland ofc he wants to buy a Island for some purpose Smile and thats all ill write because my mail seems to have been read by some US Government and i revived and still do 149 spam mails from everything from insurance to cars from the Washington area and ofc right now in Denmark our Secret Service is under investigation for sharing user data with NSA hmm Smile but you dont need to be intelligent to run a country you hire people for that thx 
English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.
Grampa Simpson: Unfortunately, like all true stories, this one has a crappy ending. You have a story with an ending.
Grampa, are you sure you're okay to drive at night? Grampa: It's night?
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#14
Or fire em all , in his case  Blush
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#15
This is not a political forum, so can we please ask that debate and discussion on such topics are taken to more appropriate venues than here.
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