Consolidating All the Groups into One

[justcarol67]

> SSSusan:
> > I guess if we actually *closed* Movie, then all that talk would probably end up at Main.  Even though I'm very interested in the movies, I'm not sure I would enjoy that too much.  I'd almost rather just see the lifting of the "No discussion of the movies at Main!" ban lifted, so that people would no longer have to *avoid* bringing in questions or examples from the movies as they talk about the books.  But if *all* someone wanted to do was talk about the movies -- particularly stuff about the actors that doesn't really even relate to the storyline or characters -- my personal preference would be that that happen elsewhere.  Which I guess would mean OTC if Movie were closed.
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> > I'd be curious what others think about this.  
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> Geoff:
> If we were to merge Main and Movie, perhaps a similar situation could be introduced as on Main at the moment where we say that posts should be linked to canon; in other words material being posted about the films should be just that - about the films. Hence the doings of the actors etc. and side tracks should go to OTC as it sometimes does with items from Main. <snip>
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Carol responds:

Wasn't the whole point of having a separate Movie group in the first place to avoid "film contamination"? I don't want to have to distinguish between Rickman!Snape and Book!Snape, for example, and I don't want to encounter posts that talk about Harry "killing" Quirrell with his bare hands, for example, and have to point out in my response that that happened only in the movie version.

*If* we close the Film list, and I see no necessity for doing so, please, please, please don't lift the ban against discussing the films on the Main list. And, above all, don't make Main an anything goes list combining the books, the films, and, erm, the fuse that blew in my house yesterday leaving me without heat.

Honestly, we'll just make a mess of things if we mix up the list. We might as well have Hagrid teaching Potions and Trelawney as headmistress.

Carol, who thinks that the dwindling number of posts on all lists is to be expected and is not sufficient cause for undoing the advantages of separate groups for separate topics