Admin-type reminder ahead of Friday

[cubfanbudwoman]

Richard:
> First of all, apologies to Kelley and the admin team for perhaps 
> giving the impression in what I said before that I might have been 
> criticising the team for not being strict with the posts/members on 
> this list. 
<snip>
> I am well aware that the team has more than enough work looking 
> after the other, much busier lists, and the few posts on this list 
> for 51 weeks of the year don't warrant a heavy-handed approach. It 
> is precisely because I wanted to AVOID it that I felt it 
> appropriate for the plea for sticking to the list's conventions (I 
> much prefer that word to "rules"....


SSSusan:
Another Mod weighing in here.  Richard, I was the one who first saw 
your post and brought it to the attention of the elves.  Like Kelley, 
I also did not see it as criticism at all.  Rather, I saw it as an 
attempt by a list member to remind folks, as we head into what's 
likely to be a busy-busy time at the Movie list, to please be 
considerate of readers by attending to common courtesy conventions 
(like your use of that word over "rules" as well!).  So no problem 
there!  I agreed with Kelley that it would be helpful to invite Movie 
list members to let us know how they feel about this group as opposed 
to the main group (which Kelley has nicely done already).


Richard: 
> My own view on the matter (and the reason why I've not contacted 
> the Admins about this) is that whilst I care for people sticking to 
> the established conventions (quite simply because it makes life 
> *reading* the list so much easier!), for most of the time it really 
> isn't a big issue on this list because there are so few posts, and 
> long threads are rare. 

SSSusan:
I think this is an excellent point.  Occasionally at OTC the top-
posting and lack of snipping does get annoying, but as you say, here 
at Movie, most of the time it's easy to work through because there 
are so few posts.

OTOH, I'm one who *really* finds it much, much easier to follow the 
flow of a discussion when posters take care with their editing -- 
snipping out extraneous stuff (points they're not going to respond 
to, sig lines, Yahoo-generated stuff), clearly identifying their own 
words, and placing those words *after* quoted material so that the 
discussion FLOWS for the reader.  All of that -- readability, 
understandability -- is why we *are* such sticklers about no top-
posting and about snipping at Main.  And so, frankly, when I saw your 
post, asking people to please attend to these matters as the Movie 
list heads into (likely) a period of post explosion, I personally 
applauded you.
 

Richard:
> My only concern is that a lot of people will turn up here out 
> of the blue over the course of the next few days and not see this 
> thread but there's not a lot we can do about that anyway, 
> regardless of whether it's gentle reminders or heavy-handed 
> orders. :-) I do hope, however, that those who *have* read this 
> thread will create examples for the others to follow, even if their 
> first posts might not be quite up to scratch.

SSSusan:
And, yep, that is about all we can ask for and the best we can do.  
As Kelley mentioned, a few of us elves are hoping to find more time 
for the Movie (and eventually OTC) lists, so that those gentle 
reminders (as opposed to heavy-handed orders ;-)) can go out more 
often than they have been.


> Richard, previously AKA GulPlum, a bit cheesed off that there are 
> no midnight screenings around here. :-(

SSSusan:
Yep, me, too.  Would've had to have driven 45 miles for a midnight 
showing, and I just didn't think driving home at 3:00 am on a "school 
night" would be so wise for me!  So 3:45 pm it is for me today!

Siriusly Snapey Susan/Shorty Elf (I'm not quite sure in which 
capacity I've most posted ;-))