(from OT List ) RE: "No responses on the main list"

[pippin_999]

> Pippin:
> But a theory is only sunk when its last defender gurgles to the
 bottom of the Bay. <snip> Of course, once Book Seven is 
published, there will be people who think JKR just got the ending 
wrong and it didn't *really* happen like that. <g>
> 
> Geoff:
> Are we permitted to nominate posters who come into this 
category and  should be dealt with? That could make for an 
interesting HPFGU Poll.
> :-)

> A fellow poster emailed me this morning and remarked that 
one  particular contributor should "between you, me and 
cyberland be  throttled.."
> 
> Yesss....<



After I was on the list a while, I noticed that the discussions 
repeat themselves as much as particular posters do--that is, the 
set of responses to any  topic  is  fairly predictable regardless of 
who is participating.   There are only so many ways one can 
react to a work of fiction, after all. Thus, after you've been on the 
list for a while, the discussions can appear to grow stale. 

There are whole categories of  theory that don't contribute to my 
understanding of canon because I can't bring myself to believe a 
word of them; Character X is actually TimeTravelling!Character Y, 
for example. 

There are posts which contribute a great deal, but which I don't 
comment on because I haven't got anything to add.

 And there are other categories in which I nearly always respond, 
because I like writing on that particular topic. I will probably
never get tired of talking about Snape, vampire! or otherwise. It is 
quite probable that there are people who are tired of hearing me 
talk about Snape, though. They have my permission to skip, not 
that they need it <g>.

As long as I can remember, people have complained about 
irritating threads, and they have always been advised to skip. A 
most irritating topic poll might be interesting. But I suspect that
if we took a 'favorite topic' poll too, there'd be a lot of overlap. 

Pippin