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I'm guilty of it myself. A noob posts a "OMG this phone is crap" post and I jump to it's defence, ususally berating the noob, because personally I love it, but I am aware I have to put work into it to get the best out of it.

It's not good though is it, because often the noob will post a question without thinking and may not even come back to check the replies. We are left beating ourselves up with the same old posts.

Therefore I would like to make a suggestion: -

1. One person replies to the post stating that the OP's post is not clear enough / does not provide examples / is inflammatory / is not helping.
2. NO-ONE ELSE POSTS until the OP reposts in a more helpful manner.
3. Helpful replies flood in. Karma flows and the world becomes a nicer place.

Hopefully this will reduce some of the FUD and misinformation floating around. Comments please!

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Perhaps the initial reply could also point the OP to the Power Search finction and suggest a couple search terms?

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a nice start, how about a wiki for the non-linux/non-techy users , I know many exist, but 1 page with all links/answers to basic features and questions one could come up with

*EDIT*
there I picked up some
http://wiki.maemo.org/Frequently_asked_questions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
http://wiki.maemo.org/N900

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Good idea.
We would have to make sure, that everyone knows of this strategy.

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Step two would be great, but it's not gonna happen in the connected tubes knows as the Interweb.

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@JohnLF Great idea!
@krk969 There are lots of wikis and how-to's as well as lots of threads and users still don't use the search function.
I don't know much about Linux or Maemo, but whenever I don't understand something, I look for it. There's nothing that I haven't found so far.
I think we should create a "Junk" section of this forum and then propose moderators to move unuseful threads there.

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Perhaps a simple box in the reply form reminding users to be respectful when replying.

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that's a great idea! I will do my part!

let's see if it works!

Maybe the Mods can change the title of the thread to start with a letter or symbol that would indicate sucha thing.


... actually what if the mods just lock the thread?

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The first poster should integrate something like that in his answer to remind everyone:

"Please remind to not post until the OP provides more information, to reduce unnecessary posts"

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