Well said, gerbick. As the Nseries tablets became more popular, and their appeal broadened, they started being bought in greater numbers by people who did not buy them as portable linux computers you could do cool things with, but as PDAs, slates, gadgets.

Thus, the composition of the membership here has changed from primarily developers and early adopters interested in exploring the technology to end-users who expect their shiny new gadget to just work. Of course, expecting the gadget to just work is a perfectly reasonable expectation, but the response to it not "working" is very different depending on your primary focus.
As a developer or early adopter, the first response is generally to try and fix it yourself, or come to the community and ask whether anyone knows of a fix for the aberrant behaviour and - perhaps - collaborate if no answer has yet been found.

As a consumer, the first - and mostly reasonable - response is to complain, either to the manufacturer or, in this case, the perceived "support forum"; maemo.org.

There really is very little that can be done about this to be honest except for us old-timers (Although I'm not active much I still use and enjoy my N800, I'm hoping that qualifies) to lead by example, and be courteous, honest and helpful.

As the N900 was the first of the line to garner a broad appeal from the relatively non-tech public, it is inevitable that both maemo and meego will see influxes of people for whom the innards of the device are much less important. We should be prepared for that; let the charm offensive begin!