[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Q's Harry's blood & Voldemor

[Susan Albrecht]

Aussie:
> Let me guess. An elf already sent you an email saying it is less
> confusing to ask one question at a time.

Random832:
>>> Doubtful. Such a policy, if there was one, would almost directly
conflict with the rarely-enforced five-messages-per-person-per-day
limit. We're encouraged to put as much together in a single message as
we can. Personally, I don't agree with that policy, and I don't think
it really reduces volume at all since one big messages takes as long
to read as five small ones, but it is the policy. <<<


SSSusan:
Nope, there is no policy which says a member should ask one question only.  Not at all.  And as Random points out, especially *within* one thread, the preference is for combined responses, rather than a bunch of individual responses.  I can understand what your'e saying, Random, about the length of some combined responses, but I know that when I read, I *much* prefer to find a synthesis of arguments to that point, with responses to several posts if applicable, than to find 4 or 5 short posts in a row by the same poster, all addressing the same topic.  IOW, I find it much nicer to read the entire gist of a position, with countering positions & responses, in one place.

Um... can you say more, Random, about the "rarely-enforced" 5-post limit??  As an elf, I participate in the listreading rotation, and I can attest that it *is* monitored.  It is also a little tricky since what constitutes a "day" depends upon where in this wide HP world one resides.  However, we do try to look at a rolling 24-hour time period, to see if anyone is going over.  For me, if I find that someone went over in such a 24-hour time period, I look back further to see if there is a pattern of doing so.  I can't swear that all elves are monitoring this in their listreading duty, but I can vouch that many of us are.

Siriusly Snapey Susan, more as Shorty Elf this time