I'm asking people of this forum, of course. If you read TrueJournals initial post (and he is not a 'maemo guy' in the sense you put it for what I know) and my comment #2 you will see that the reason to propose the deprecation of the Newbie forum is precisely "more consideration to casual users".

Why so much attention to changing the forum? I'm no less 'ITt guy' than you (specially on a bank holiday at night), I spend a lot of time following and taking part in this forum and I just try to help. Some core contributors said Thanks in the initial posts and before you nobody seemed to oppose frontally to the proposal.

Reggie has the last word, as usual.