I have stopped actively participating in talk.maemo for the last few months (I was one of those who got scared away by all the new N900 owners) but as this seems to be the thread to discuss this in I will address my concerns here.

I own an N800, N810 and N900 and have been part of these forums for a few years. Please for the love of your deity have a more active moderation panel in the new forum. Moderators who will actually ban users/trolls and delete offensive posts and merge duplicate postings. ITT/T.M.O was the best forum I had ever been part of, I learned something new everyday from the posters. This was when it was still small and there was respect amongst posters. As it grew with the announcement of the N900, the noise to information ratio plummeted and I would literally get a headache from reading some of the posts. At the end of November I stopped reading it vowing never to return. Purchase of an N900 and the meego.com announcement has brought me back here and I see that nothing has changed really and that its simply gotten worse.

There is nothing wrong with active moderation it keeps the forum useful and will help maintain a good balance between endusers who want to bs with each other, commercial developers who want to make money and advanced hacker types who want to tinker. As this community morphs into something much bigger than it was before there should be an emphasis put upon how the community should develop. I believe this includes encouraging and discouraging certain behavior. Anyway don't have much else to say I am excited to see what comes of this merger, I have registered already at meego.com and hope to see many of you over there in the new forums whenever they come.