radical remedy

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Great heavens, someone thinks I'm mild natured? Or thought it after
> knowing me for more than, say, an hour? Wow. I thought I was a 
crochety
> old bat delivering an ultimatum, not a mild-natured person 
delivering a
> plea. I must be missing my stride. <grins at Catherine>
>

LOL, Amanda!  You know what I mean.  You are one of the people who 
don't often seem to get riled and your posts almost NEVER come across 
as crotchety, IMO. (Apart from recently, which is what I was trying 
to say).

> I share your ambiguity on this suggestion. I'm still pondering.
> 
> --Amanda

So am I, but I think that Kristin's idea is a good one -  she wrote

> Maybe one solution is to have a few more list elves. Besides being 
a 
> welcoming commitee to the newbies, the list elves could help with 
> some of the more mundane moderating duties on the list. For example 
> gently steering posts from netspeak to more traditional 
> comminication. As Ebony put it teens are trainable (more so than 
> adults, myself included) and we could teach them "our ways". I'm 
sure 
> Our Magical Mod team could use the extra help, with their busy 
lives 
> they may not always keep up with the goings on. 
> 
> If we think the list needs a few more house elves I'd be more than 
Ø	wiling to help out. 

I would be as well.  There have been other suggestions of splinter 
groups etc.  I think that is fair enough for the movie.  I did vote 
in the poll for a permanent list for the movie, so there isn't an 
influx on the main list of people who want to discuss it, and so we 
can put a stop to posts which start, "But in the movie...."

However, I am not sure I like the idea of splinter groups to discuss 
canon.  There is, of course, nothing to stop people starting their 
own lists on an "invitation only" basis, but I do think that this 
also smacks of elitism.  There are already other lists which are 
doing this, such as Lupinlovers (on which I lurk), but they don't get 
as wide a variety of posts and posters.  HPFGU has an extremely 
diverse crowd on it, and the discussions are often extremely 
interesting because of this.  If a list was set up on an invitation 
only basis, there is a danger that this diversity would be lost.

Catherine