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2009-04-10 , 12:25
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#104
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
I don't really think there's any need for action... But:

If it's gonna be changed... a good reason to use karma instead of anything else would be that in spite of the domain change, user accounts will not be merged.

Showing karma for those who have a maemo.org account and not showing karma ("-" rather than "0") for those who don't might make people ask what this karma-thing is all about... how to get karma... which may lead to people opening a maemo.org-account... which in turn is good for the community: The maemo.org account is the key to further participation beyond the forum.
Exactly^...

This forum site behaves as the general public expects a forum site to behave and low frustration = low transference to Maemo the brand.

However, if simple actions continue to frustrate new users at the maemo.org site, just the opposite may occur and this in turn is not good for the community.

If they are like me when the N800 first dropped they will retreat back to the comfort of this forum until they can figure out how to make that new purchase more useful.