ADMIN: Where we'll be discussing the movie

[Neil Ward]

[Flying Ford Anglia sidles in wearing a slightly-too-tight 
usherette's uniform, wielding a torch and hefting a tray of delicious 
ice-creams.  The other Mods hide behind the sofa
]

"Roll up, roll up - all the fun of the fair!"  Oh no
 that's the 
circus. We're talking films, aren't we?  And talking of talking films


The results of the recent movie poll, to decide where we'll be 
discussing the HP movie, were:

**202 in favour of keeping movie discussions on the current list, 
with spoilers;
**51 in favour of a temporary movie list;
**154 in favour of a permanent movie list;
**8 in favour of moving movie discussions to OT Chatter.

This is pretty even stevens, with a slight majority in favour of 
moving the discussions to another location, at least temporarily.

After some deliberation, the consensus of the moderator team is to 
move all Harry Potter movie discussions to a separate list and review 
the situation periodically.  It is very difficult to tell how active 
the movie list might be between films, since discussion of content 
will still relate overwhelmingly to book canon, so we'll just suck it 
and see.

We have heard some valid arguments for keeping the discussions on the 
main HPfGU list and, to be honest, we are reluctant to fragment the 
list further and possibly create more admin work.  However, we've 
already seen an increase in the number of movie-related posts to the 
list and that trend is likely to continue once the first film is 
out.  Also, the necessity of enforcing spoiler space on movie or 
movie-book posts for several months after the release date could, in 
our opinion, become a real chore.  

Had a large majority voted against moving the discussions, we would 
have kept things as they are, but, given the very close call, it 
seems more practical to make a distinction between discussions of the 
two media and go ahead with a separate list.

****So [a roll on the drums from behind the sofa]
.here's the address 
for the new list, HPFGU-Movie: 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie

Please follow the hairy usherette into the room on the left, sign 
yourselves in and, from the dawn of All Saint's Day, confine all your 
chatter, observation and analysis on the Harry Potter movie to that 
place.

Translation: From 1st November 2001 – that's the day after 
Hallowe'en - if you want to post about the Harry Potter movie, please 
do it at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie and not on 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups.  

Get over there as sharp as you like, and join up!  One more time: no 
more movie discussions on the main HPFGU list after Hallowe'en.  

["Okay, already!!! We heard you the first time!!!!"]

Until then, please continue to post to the main list, using the 
MOVIE: prefix.

Oh, one more thing:  Any comments on this decision should be hurled 
through the moderators' dungeon window at 
MagicalMods at ...m.  Please, please, please, please, 
pleeeeeeeeze don't comment on the main list.  

Cinematically yours,

The Magical Moderator Team