Thanks for the response.

I take your point about moderation. My experience suggests that moderation tends to happen reactively when a community changes, and rules are found to be necessary. If one is not careful, the board rule-book can look worse than the EU constitution, when all it really needs to say is 'post with common sense'.

My concern was not with my experience, so much as a feeling I get in several places that some long time users are a bit hacked off at all us newbies. I'd hate to see this place become somewhere that you had to be a developer to belong.

Again with karma - I don't expect as a non-developer that I shall ever get into the 'discount' category, but I have seen long-time users grouch at the fact that people are being thanked for 'pointless' posts. Which since they've spent a long time building up credit with hard work is entirely understandable.

I also do suspect that the next few weeks may well attract even more problems as people twiddle their thumbs (instead of doing a twirly-zoom) waiting for thir devices.

And finally, thanks. I like it here. The community is one of the major reasons for telling myself to wait in patience and not buy something else (along with the resistive screen, carl zeiss lens and sheer... differentness of the n900). Cornwall is good for holidays. Though not in November.