i read all of the blogs and threads regarding the n900 and i always see "Texrat" which means, an active member to help not only in maemo.org,

if you here are going to establish a unity regarding this, please invite me

I know my posts won't have the greatest impact since i'm not a usual poster most of the times I only read threads and joined in the N900 crowd.

I'm a moderator on another forum and indeed I believe your course of action was the best, I joined the thread in the early beginning and kept reading until it was closed.

Lets face it, it wasn't an area where you could actively do something, you warned people that should be over 5 years old and have a brain that it could damage their device or not be a final version, you tried to guide the thread to keep it has controlled has possible.

Imho you did all you could and when you saw things were getting out of hand you escalated exactly like you should.

In my point of view your acting method was indeed the best and I could only hope all moderators would be the same has you in every forum I ever used of moderated !

I don't know if the reason for quitting was only this thread, and I sure do know moderation is hard work that takes us a few hours without getting any retribution and sometimes only the dislike of most forum members.

Hope you continue with us and that i don't get many crappy posts deleted from you

I thought Texrat handled it very well. Profesionally, actually. I stayed up till 5 am, and I just got online again right now (so what happened after is still sketchy to me). Bummer was taking abuse, sure, but it was pretty much deserved (at least until 5 am, I don't know what hapenned after). He was repeating his arguements even after he was told that they weren't relevant. And he was dishing out his own eloquent abuse, at that.
Texrat did what was right. Based on previous experience, he allowed the debate to go on, jumping in frequently to remind everyone what was going on, and to cool the debate when it got heated. Bummer can claim victory all he wants, but when the thread was developing Texrat took the appropriate and correct decisions.
Hats off to you, Texrat.

Hahaha! Awesome.

Texrat's a good egg, so I hope he decides to carry on

Texrat, THANK YOU! Awesome job Glad to have you on our side...

Laughingstock, you rock too!

We all make mistakes. Best to learn from them and keep on keepin' on, IMO.

Textrat: we need you here to mod all the non-behavers and to support the newbees like me

what i can say is....."Texrat! we need you here!"

First post here. I will be getting my N900 in a couple of days time. The threads about PR 1.2 can drive anyone insane. It's been told so many times by Nokia officials here that N900 will not be abandoned, in fact they are working hard to port MEEGO to N900 as they have declared N900's cortex processor as the reference hardware which is a good news for all current/future N900 owners.

Also if Nokia had to abandon N900, they wouldn't be launching N900 in other countries like Hongkong, India etc.

So people here need to relax and should help the newbie's to get acquainted with N900 as it is a device which has a lot of hidden potential which if utilized constructively will turn out to be a real competitor for OS like Android, Iphone etc.

Sorry for going offtopic. Coming back to the topic, this forum need people like texrat who are matured by all sense.

Thumbs up!

Thanks to nokia for N900 and I hope N900 continues to be be the first device which brings Innovation at its best.