It seems that some people here mistake moderation with punishment and censorship....
These may be equal if the forum is a private one and if its sole purpose is to discuss truly specific topics about a single thing.
Unfortunately talk.maemo.org is neither private nor specific... It is a forum of a community... and this community is consisting of INDIVIDUALS.... something that many people here do forget...

Anyway IMHO Moderation is not the things one can do to punish the posters he doesn't like or considers rude/inapropriate/out of good manners etc, but the things one can do to convince the offenders stop doing their flame/troll etc. That is why moderation is an art... And that is why this board has nothing to do with the boards on KDE, GNOME or LinuxQuestions.org in terms of trolling/flaming....

This small article:
http://www.angelfire.com/space/usenet/

may be a bit old and referring to Usenet... but i am sure that anyone of us (including me ) can learn some things from it...