Well, I went ahead and registered despite my maemo profile showing that I have a negative 108 karma. Looking at the karma system, it seems some people are more personal than topical when it comes to voting things down and I know I have two or three anti-fans doing this.

I noticed the same thing with other users, too. This user's post has a thumbs-down from someone though it is clearly pertinent to the Internet tablets and I've noticed that feed has other targeted thumbs-down.

In Internet Tablet related posts (excluding those that are clearly unrelated to the maemo community,) here's the trend I see:

• If it's an alternative Linux distro (debian, android) but is on the internet tablets, some people give it thumbs-down.
• If it's for the tablets but closed source (like some INdT products) a few people give it thumbs-down
• If it is about commercial applications, some people give it thumbs-down.
• If it's by certain people regardless of content, some people give it thumbs-down.

I wish I knew who those people were. I'd give them a thumb-down T-shirt and a mirror and hope they get lost in that little world.