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	Flandry	2010-03-27 , 21:34
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Originally Posted by crail

good topic title though. this will imform more people of the rule than the other sticky post. i thought it was a great new ovi game lol

Oh no! He's on to my sneaky plan!

Originally Posted by un-named_user

I really appreciate the more restrained tone in last your post

Off topic - but
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48464

This is just one thread as an example. I couldn't see a rule against making fun/belittling a newbie for a genuine question, but shouldn't that be implicit for everyone. Sure I could pass it off as friendly banter.. But that's not what it is.

Can I expect a friendly reminder from mods in situations like these too? Or does this not fall inside Russian Roulette

I and the other mods will give warnings and/or bans to people that are especially vulgar and/or offensive, and make a note of it in the moderator forum so we all know the user has had a problem already in case it comes up again.

Again, it's a case where everyone is welcome to ask others to not be rude. If they respond to that in a rude way, it's probably time to notify a moderator.

Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo

I really don't understand the fact that maemo.org

a) bans people asking for/distributing copyrighted game rom images and at the same time
b) distributes plenty of copyrighted home computer rom images via its main repositories

Can somebody please explain to me why one is a big no go and the other one is just ok? .

It's a good question and i actually posted in the calculator emulator thread asking if it was really a good idea to be distributing the ROMs from the repos. I was told nicely to go soak my head, so i left it alone. I would prefer to not see anything in the repos that is illegal, even if it's not something likely to draw legal action.

The shift of emphasis in this forum has me questioning spending more time working on the MAME emulator, and i will probably redirect my focus back to FOSS games that everyone can enjoy without needing to buy or break the law. This post in another emu thread states the idea in a similar way to my new feelings on the matter. Emulators are awesome, but it seems to be where all the interest and effort is being directed, and i don't think that's healthy for Maemo.

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Classic example of arbitrary Nokia decision making. Couldn't just fallback to the no brainer of tagging with lat/lon if network isn't accessible, could you Nokia?

MAME: an arcade in your pocket
Accelemymote: make your accelerometer more joy-ful

Last edited by Flandry; 2010-03-27 at 21:40.

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