No one here has yet mentioned the fmms thread.

In that thread you will see a large number of users with extreme patience contributing. I saw few hysterical negative complaints.

For me, the moral is that the current situation can be handled heroically by developers who understand how to deal with users.

The answer is not to send users with complaints to Bugzilla. The answer is to take them seriously and make it obvious that their help will in turn help them.

This place is the only game in town. I would probably go elsewhere if there was elsewhere to go. I get upset by what seems to me the elitism of the group that came to power when maemo took the place over. But there is no other place to get usable information.

It strikes me as hilarious that people complain about the amount of "noise" here, as in extraneous, unhelpful comments.

How was the level of noise when maemo was its own separate community and hadn't taken over ITT?

There was no noise. All the noise was on ITT.

Someone buys a phone and they owe help to a community? Since when? I bought a car -- what community do I owe to because of that?

I don't think that the situation here is that bad, but the powers to be have made it a bit worse than it needs to be with bad decisions and forcing together two communities that are more naturally separated.

Just some ramblings...