Right now there are 800 plus people viewing talk.maemo, of which ca. 50 are members. Assessing the vote via such statistics for say the last year, might reveal a democratically less disastrous picture.

The relevance of talk.maemo is of course embodied by those 800 non-members who presumably find value here. Admittedly, the presence of sailfish users may distort the picture, in that they might find value here at the moment but not feel that the future of maemo or the HF is of relevance to them.