[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: ADMIN: Possible Change to the Main List Settings

[SnapesSlytherin at talia_dawn_3.yahoo.invalid]

In a message dated 1/12/2004 2:54:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, CoyotesChild at ... writes:
> Fortunately, I am one of those people out there who only posts under an
> alias.  (I also happen to have a first and last name combination in RL
> that, when I did a Google search of my name, it turned up over 900,000
> entries... so there's no way you can be sure that you are actually
> reading something about me... and you're most likely not since I use
> aliases all the time.)

Well, I use an alias too but most people I know know what it is (I *really* need to get more creative...).  I'm lucky because most people in my school already thinks I'm completely nuts so I can get away with it.

> It may seem innocent to most, but unfortunately there are some people
> who could have their lives made a little more difficult if certain
> people read some of their posts.

I have mentioned my school and people I know in posts before -- never by name, but the name of my school has been mentioned once or twice.  It wouldn't really be that hard for someone I go to school with to put two and two together... (well, actually, knowing us it would -- see, there I go again!)  I don't really like the idea of the HP haters being able to get to my posts... I think I have written some...interesting stuff that I don't really want random Interneters to get their hands on.  I mean, I *cringe* when my friend and I Google search and find our crappy Newsies site from 8 billion years ago.

So, all in all, I'm not really a fan of that.

There *is* a solution I can think of.  What if we had posts (that the posters approved) able to be viewed by potential members?  Just to show them what they're like? 

And I'm not sure that not having posts viewable turns people away.  I joined without having much knowledge about the group (and what a shock I was in for... *grin*).

Oryomai