There is a sub-thread about moderators under Who finds themselves coming to these forums... It deserves specific attention here.

The fact is, I was never invited. I contacted Reggie offering help organizing the forum and getting it prepared for a wave of new Maemo users. And I got moderator permissions.

Questions:

Did you propose him any working plan or role you would like to get in these forums requiring moderator permissions?

Is someone aware of someone else (maemo.org philic or phobic) with experience in these forums (e.g. hundreds of posts and Thanks) that volunteered to be a moderator and work on X, Y, Z and got rejected?

... in the meantime what is missed is more help with moderation foot work (deleting spam, moving threads to the right forums, writing sticky informative topics etc). I wish 5 top contributors usually critic to what Nokia does and says would get such permissions to help on improving these forums beyond the Reply button.