[HPFGU-Catalogue] Safe Place to Vent

[a_silmariel]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> On 13 Jul 2004, at 17:55, annemehr wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm thinking it right now...
> >
> >  Anne
> 
> 
> Why be coy?
> Stupidity I can ignore (occasionally) but it's obvious that some of
the newer bunch haven't read the books, or not properly.
> Glaring errors; unfamiliarity with characters and plot; facile  
> arguments; dumb theories. And so bloody PC! Nobody can be nasty
under any  circumstances. Bollocks. If someone is a brain-dead cretin
who's talking out of their anal aperture they need to be told.

And I have the chills when they require the same PC from the
characters of the books, but more when they require other posters to
agree with that or be labeled in ethic terms... when the discussions
reach that level I don't know if they ever permit subversive reading
and I think nothing useful can come out of it.

> 
> This is what I was afraid would happen after so many of the best  
> posters transferred to Admin last summer. A dilution of standards.
Said so to Admin, too. There aren't enough high quality posters to set
and maintain the standard we'd all like to see. Can we get Amanda back
on site to whip 'em into line? They'd either improve or leave, whining
about how unfair it all is.

I was once under her fire. I survived (barely). Can we convince her? 
  Does she accept bribes?  

> 
> I fear that the site membership is splitting and that there'll be  
> break-away groups forming. Sad, but probably inevitable. If it
happens, for God's sake  don't leave me with this lot! I'd prefer 
merciful oblivion.
> 
> Barry

I'd also.

Great news. I've joined the masses who have internet access at home,
so hopefully in the future I won't be collapsed by some hundred hpfgu
posts each time I connect. I'll give a try and post.

I consider myself a newbie (though you categorized me in the 'naive
theoriser's section' in a recent post) but as things are now on list,
 I appear to be brilliant in comparison. 

Carolina