FAQ roles, and Dark Mark

[Tom Wall]

Amanda:
Since you asked [what I do around FAQ]. I signed on because I am an 
editor. I help proof draft-finals, and check links. There hasn't 
been much call for this particular skill set lately; nobody has 
posted a draft-final text for proofing or link-checking in rather a 
long time. I stand ready when this does occur. Not everyone on this 
list is here to write; there are FAQ production support roles.

Tom:
So, am I correct in understanding that everyone else does the work, 
and you proofread it? *That's* what your contribution to FAQ is?

I'd - in all fairness - argue that there's not much call for this 
particular skill set at all. IMHO, it's much more important for 
people to be *writing* FAQ's than simply checking others' work - 
particularly when there's no work to be checked at present. Idle 
hands, you know? Well, idle hands, and the difference between 
positive and negative contributions to projects. Some people come up 
with tons of ideas. Others contribute by shooting ideas down.

So, may I suggest that you contribute to something else around here, 
since the skills of which you're in possession don't seem to be of 
much use at present... and if Eileen is correct, they haven't been 
of much use for the past year - at least.


Amanda (re: Dark Mark draft):
Way cool! I'm looking forward to the Dark Mark stuff; I'd given a 
list of posts to Porphyria back when she was doing Snape, that 
discussed Dark Mark stuff, but she (correctly, I think) decided that 
it wasn't Snape-specific enough to include with that one, and set 
the list aside to help support a later FAQ. I wasn't sure if there 
was, overall, enough stuff for Dark Mark by itself, or if it would 
be rolled into a larger one.

Tom:
Yeah, I found that list of your stuff in the Files section, and all 
of the downthread responses to your posts have been very - *VERY* - 
handy... especially since don't seem to be very many posts out there 
on that stuff. Thanks for compiling that - and Porphyria, for 
putting it up there in html format.

Personally, I insist - without having actually been crossed, yet - 
on including the Dark Mark in the FP, because I'm really interested 
in it, even if there aren't a lot of posts out there. And it was 
GulPlum and his breakdown of the "Morsmordre" incantation (I don't 
speak French, so the whole "Eat Death" thing was completely news to 
me) that got me excited about it a while back.

Actually, your posts on the main list, and the stuff that you 
compiled are - basically - the groundwork for the outline, plus as 
many other posts on the subject that I could find.

Oh, and there was an absolutely *amazing* discussion between you, 
Elkins, and Porphyria that resulted in a lot of discussion on the 
subject back in the thirty-thousands era which is very cool, 
although I'm trying to branch off of that as much as possible. And I 
think you'd be happy to lern that I'm trying to sneak in as much 
relevant Snape stuff (without actually treading on the Snape FP) as 
I can... we'll see how much people let me get away with that, 
though. ;-)

-Tom