Tone of posts (was:Re: The State of the List Questionaire - Oct 2007)

[horridporrid03]

> >>Alla:
> <snip>
> I can speak only for myself, not for the team, but to the best of   
> my knowledge nobody is planning on limiting the list from           
> discussing ANY aspects of **the books**, positive OR negative,      
> which both are definitely legitimate, how could they be not?
> <snip>
> What can ruin the pleasure of great discussion for me though is the 
> condescending tone - as in how people that like the books are      
> missing all that REALLY hate filled and bad writing picture of DH   
> and of course JKR being crazy, etc. And I had read posts like that 
> (luckily now not as many).
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
I'm probably being over-sensitive (I hope!), but since I've been told 
I came across as condescending in the one post I tried my hardest to 
*not* be condescending, I've been second guessing myself a lot.

But I'm one who thinks DH was badly written, displayed a lot of hate, 
and lead me to conclude JKR has more issues than X-Men comics.  
(Okay, maybe not *that* many, but her issues run deep. <g>)  I don't 
aim to condescend to those who enjoyed the books.  I do aim to try 
and work out what went wrong and where.  And I also like to put forth 
my point of view.  But now it sounds like my point of view pings your 
condescention radar.  Does it?

Betsy Hp (a tiny bit worried)