I think the criticism on the moderation team is a bit displaced. If members self-moderated themselves, then no mod would have to close so many similar threads.

So many of those threads are so similar. "Nokia owes us..." "Nokia sucks..." "Maemo is dead..." "Y'all are suckas..." "Maemo needs to die..." blah blah. I get it. I'm upset with Nokia something fierce on many things that I think they could almost instantly make it better - and yes, I'm quite aware that TMO, formerly iTT is not the place to air out your grievances thinking that Nokia will respond; however this place is Nokia affiliated via the OS.

With that said... the negativity threads will one day die down. People that yell eventually get tired. Push those threads into the one area that doesn't update the right-hand feed on TMO - but I still see them (I think) on iTT's front page - and just let it go.

I do believe in freedom of speech. But I don't believe that freedom of speech allows you to constantly be a jerk.

That goes both ways.