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

[Annemehr]

> SSSusan:

> At least, I know that I had similar thoughts to Alla's concerning 
the issue Annemehr raised of "How could people be upset by others' 
negative reactions to the book?"  I mean that in the sense that, for 
me, it really isn't usually the *content* of the message that upsets; 
it's more often the lack of opinion language or the presence of a 
tone or the sense that "judgments" are implicit in the "negative" 
post.  
> 

Annemehr:

Well, I did get a little snarky (as Jen pointed out -- I'm bad 
sometimes!), but I was talking about a few people who've written a 
minority of posts that seemed to be saying that the negative-reaction 
threads *don't belong on HPfGU.*  They weren't just disagreeing with 
the negative posts, they were complaining about their very presence 
on the list.

See, if I had been writing a canon-discussion post instead of 
answering this questionnaire, I would have given citations.  Then it 
would have been clearer.  But I can't go quoting individual HPfGU 
posts here.  So, I tried to explain the best I could.


On the other hand, the fact that the DH-lovers and the DH-haters are 
looking at each other like aliens sometimes can be kind of fun, if we 
all keep our heads.

Annemehr