Can we look at the Debian project to get some ideas?

In Maemo, there is one thing that bothers me sometimes: the overreaction of people when someone points to a link in extras-testing or extras-devel. The you-will-be-eaten-by-dragons stuff.

I use Debian testing as my stable desktop. Of course there are hip-cups sometimes, but that's part of the game that I'm willing to play.

What if instead of all that overreaction, people could be asked some simple question: "Do you think you can troubleshoot, re-flash your device and restore your backup if anything goes wrong?"

1) "Yes"->extras-devel
2) "Maybe, if I follow a re-flash guide"->extra-testing
3) "I don't know what you are talking about" -> stay on extras only

maybe more people would show up, but they would be warned in a positive and constructive way.