ADMIN: Possible Threat to the HPFGU Family of Lists

[msbeadsley]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> Carolyn:
> Its like a scenario from the books themselves. Some power-mad 
> wizards/witches gone bad and threatening the whole community with 
> destruction. Lets hope our own OotP squad get the upper hand...

I was a precocious and spoiled (as well as undersocialized) only 
child for many years. It took years for me to figure out that MAKING 
people play MY game MY way was not an option. (Countless times, I was 
the kid who ended up feeling misunderstood and crying in the corner.) 
While I still screw up, I have learned some lessons. One is that even 
if nobody in the playground will play with you, working the system 
and getting the playground shut down isn't actually very satisfying. 
(Making sure NOBODY gets to play is not the same as being a player.) 
The other is that you only have to threaten to shut down the 
playground ONCE for most people to decide that you are pretty self-
absorbed and disinterested beyond what you want out of them.

I've only been around for four months or so (feels like forever); and 
while I came on like gangbusters at first, I've become less present 
as things outside of cyberspace have sucked up my time and 
energy...so I'm not sure how relevant my opinion is here. But--while 
I have faith that ADMIN will manage to keep it (us) together somehow 
(I'd like to help somehow and am open to suggestions), even if the 
worst happens, I think ADMIN was right in the decisions which seem to 
have triggered what is happening now. I love HPfGU and its sidekicks, 
and part of me is hysterical with fear and grief at the very idea 
that it could go away. Yet...I am not willing to have my love for it 
held hostage. If it died, that would HURT. (Oh, God, please, no.) But 
if the only thing that could save it was giving in, I'd give it up. 
The ransom is (I'm guessing) too high, and the kidnapper(s) too 
certain (I'm sure) to become bolder with success (and what'll it be 
NEXT time?).

Sandy