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Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
So, as a council member, you'd push to have talk.maemo.org taken away from Reggie?
Wow!... and you talk about straw man arguments.

I would hope that Council would want Reggie to be the administrator of these forums. I don't even know if the council has the power to appoint an administrator. For all I know Reggie has an equitable interest negotiated with Nokia.

What I would push for is that Reggie or whoever did administrate and manage these forums, would be able to do their job on a day to day basis without being influenced by the Council. Worse than that would be if the council believed that because they were elected, this some how gave them the... (and I'm reusing your last straw man here Jaffa) "Magical Properties" to be an effective forum moderator.

The best forums that I have belonged to are the ones that are produced and maintained by the people who use them as their primary source of information on the subject. Members who find useful information will post that information. Just as we see now in the developing Sygic threads. Other members will collect specific information from a general thread and open a new thread for only that information. Forum users will do this naturally regardless of the forums subject in order to make the forums easier for them to use. Since we are all there pretty much for the same reason, the forums then become easier for all to use.

This is why I proposed that forum administration and moderation be separated from the council’s duties. I believe that when we stop trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole, active forum members will allow the forums to evolve into a more useful place for all. As a bonus, in my blue sky world I believe more independent developers will be produced from the forum side of the house as forum members learn more about their devices from within an environment that is more “natural” to them.

A new member recently posted...

Originally Posted by GaryHT627
As a new comer here I have sensed a culture clash. It seems the history of Maemo was largely a hangout for those well skilled in Linux and there was an assumption of what was understood and more importantly how the “community” worked. Now with the N900 there is the introduction of those, like me, who are not experts at Linux and do not have a long history of working in the “community” environment. Things like voting for what bugs to fix first, are totally foreign concepts. And yes, there will be some questions that make your eyes roll to the back of your head because many of us lack the skills you have. As this will likely get worse over time as more devices are introduced and the customer base grows...
If a new member "senses" this... we got problems, Bubba.

Having been a member of iTT before maemo.org's "acquisition" of the forums. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I doubt a new member would have "sensed" a culture clash back then.

From what I remember most of us were in awe and extremely grateful to the maemo.org members like sebastian.linux, TA-t3, qwerty12, and fanoush who would take the time to help us and most still do.

What happened since then?
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