ADMIN: Feedback Wanted re List Closure for DH Release

[Annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "sridharj_ap" 
<sridharj_ap at ...> wrote:

> Ok, unless JKR, I tend to ramble, so the point is: Why should it be
> closed? ok, maybe till the list elves read the book, but even then,
> it would be great for those among us who know the Magical Parchment
> Absorption Charm, to chat and discuss as soon as we read the book.
> 
> Regards
> A Hogwarts dropout
>

Well, because HPfGU is a high-volume list (VERY high-volume right 
after a book release), and it's not meant for just "chat."  Posts are 
supposed to be substantive and have some thought behind them.

If it's reopened too early, you get too much of the boring chatter.  
It becomes a vicious cycle: the more repetitive chatter swamps the 
list, the less anyone can read the threads before posting, even if 
they wanted to, so the more repetitive posts appear, and so on.  If 
there was a new idea mixed in somewhere, no one could find it to have 
a real discussion.

I mean, after OoP you'd see a post beginning "Has anyone noticed..." 
and continuing with stuff that had been posted several hundred times 
already, the most recent being mere hours before.  It was totally 
useless.

With this new threading system of Yahoo's, it's going to be even 
harder to follow any particular thread you're interested in, besides.

That's why I'm hoping for at least a four-day shutdown.  The post-HBP 
shutdown was longer than OoP's, and things were better.

IMNSHO.

Annemehr