The first couple of days of having my N800 I thought to myself "wow, self, it would be great if we could rotate the screen into portrait mode" and I checked the forum.

Sure enough, there was a huuuuge thread going with instructions on how to do just that (these were pre Advanced Backlight-Rotation days).

It seemed like damn near all of the "loudest voices" mentioned above were there...helping. It seemed (at least to relative stranger) that anybody knowledgable in the community in any was working together to get rotation not just accomplished, but easliy accomplished.

And that was my first real introduction to the community. I thought, damn, these people are awesome!

But over time that public cooperation seems to have faded away a bit.

Maybe the problem is that the Council is too busy doing things behind the scenes? I dunno, I don't really pay too close attention to the council or the politics, as I've said.