Some ideas that could improve the s/n:

1) sticky "how to post to this forum" notes on top of EVERY subforum.

This is clearly our #1 problem - nobody knows the rules.

Having a sticky post explaining clearly what is acceptable to post, like do not go personal, no swearing, no piracy, etc. Also any sub-forum specific rules like "howto title threads in this subforum, what to include in bug/testreports etc.".

2) more active moving of threads.

For example the "Openness: Maemo vs Android" to "competitors", lots of the n900/maemo5 forum threads belong under "applications" etc, and lots threads should go straight to "offtopic".

3) active removal of one-liner non-contributional comments.

Eg. people replying to comments with "what is this sh*t" "whatever" etc. These don't really help anyone.

4) more moderators

Surely with this amount of users there are coolheaded people who could help offloading the volume?