Yes. Currently, there are wide areas purposely disruptive posters can target. Only big offenses earn a ban, and it's easy to avoid going that far. Minor offenses are overlooked if they happen only once or twice and earn all of a "please stop" PM if repeated. As continuing to cause trouble in minor ways just results in further PMs, there's not great incentive given to change behavior.

Three (or four or five or...) strikes and you're out might work in those situations, but if that's not formalized, it's just an arbitrary decision on the moderator's part. It seems far better to establish infractions through open discussion now, update them based on experience and feedback as time goes on, and use them to try to curb deliberate, repeated disruption of the forums. Infractions add something of a ticket option in between the sometimes insufficient "let off with a warning" and the undesirable "revoke license".

Does the council now approve of the proposed policy? Does anyone in the community have any more changes to propose?

I would like the wording regarding Nokia-oriented posts to be revised. I'll post a suggestion later.

May I suggest something along the lines of "posts addressing Nokia [...] will go unheard".

Also, I'd like to point out that, technically, it's not a rule. It has no penalty attached to it, so it's not a rule. Additionally, it's part of the introduction. So, maybe something that phases out "not allowed" and focuses on "pointless", so to speak?

I know that this may not be relevant for long (what with the closing expiry date for maemo and the new tablet-related site launching), but I just gotta ask..

1. Why isn't there a Reviews/Rants/Opinions/Whine&Cheese sub forum?
2. May we get a configurable 'Active Topics' sidebar?

What's the point of new policies for a site that is gradually being phased out? Isn't it?

It's in phase as long as people have 770, 800, 810 and not-willing-to-run-alphas N900. So, there's still juice in the tank.

Close I write reports and must not be accusable in any case. I learned to be careful when talking officials (unfortunately the hard way).

Changed to:
I move we adopt the policy as contained in the OP, effective immediately.

+1 for finalizing, but I think we should add "Such threads or posts are subject to closure or deletion," to that statement, since as ndi stated, there really isn't anything stopping people from posting said content.