The gleam in the FAQs (Crosspost Mod & FAQ groups)

[Aberforth's Goat]

Penny enthused,

> Mike, you owe me a new keyboard!  Let's all take the Goat's approach &
> come up with hilarious responses to all the people who failed to read
> the VFAQ.  I love it, love it, love it!  <huge grin>

<grins back>

But actually, I'm feeling just a little bad about making fun of Sharon's
gleam
question, for the simple reason that it'd take one hell of newbie to figure
out what we've already said about it. (Besides: I'd hate for the whole mod
list to have to buy Penny two or three new keyboards per week ... )

Our FAQ (or Pensieve or whatever) doesn't presently say much about the
gleam. I assume that CMC's Dumbledore FAQ will have several hundred pages
dedicated to the question, but since it's not up yet, there are only a few
cursory thoughts in Penny's mysteries FAQ.

Yes, the VFAQ, mentions the gleam and suggests that "you can read various
opinions on this in the group archives, particularly around the time GoF was
released." Which is all very well - but anyone who has ever researched a FAQ
knows that actually *finding* anything in the !#$% message section fulfills
most of the prerequisites to beatification.

* * * * * * * *

I'm not sure what we can do about this, however. Does anyone know how CMC's
doing on his FAQ? I thought he only needed to retool his character sketch.
Should he be encouraged to have a Very Bad Conscience? (BTW, Thanks to Mr.
Walton for getting me back to A.A. Milne ... )

And for now, how about linking the appropriate VFAQ line to Penny's Mystery
FAQ? In faqt, howabout adding the VFAQ to the *FAQ* web so that VFAQ readers
will be exposed directly to the FAQs themselves - instead of being routed
into an obscure corner of the file section?

However, doing this would require editing the FAQ web, and I'm not sure how
that is done, nor who (besides Steve) is able to do it. Heidi and I both
have pages in the files section that are ready to go online. Should we
recruit another html techie from the main list to help Steve and Paul Kippes
carry the load?

(I'd be willing to try, but my html "skills," laughable though they are,
probably aren't the kind of humor the group needs ... )

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
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"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been
bravery...."