[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: radical remedy

[Amber ?]

>From: "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at yahoo.com>
>
>You know what I'm really scared of?  I'm scared that when book 5
>comes out, we're going to have total chaos.  We'll be up to 3000
>posts a day, many of which will fail to include spoilers, and some of
>us will get so frustrated that we'll just give up the whole community
>in disgust.  Or we'll become so frustrated that someone will come up
>with a "HP4GU list only open to members who've been members for a
>year or more" or something like that.  The whole thing scares me a
>bit.

I agree most wholeheartedly. And I'm even more worried about the list when 
the movie comes out (which I know has been discussed before). Right now, I 
think the amount of "good" posts outnumbers the amount of "bad" posts 
(forgive my use of the words good and bad, I can't think of a better 
classification) and I'm more than willing to live with that. But after the 
movie? After Book 5? Things might get unbalanced and I'd hate to see the 
quality of the list take a downward turn. The scholarship and clear thinking 
of the people on this list astounds me every *day* and I'd be sad to have 
that feeling leave.

>Anyway, I suppose that I'm theoretically against limiting membership
>- it smacks too much of elitism to me.  However, I can't help but
>think it'd be a lot more convenient. ;)

Again, I agree. I hate the idea of excluding or limiting people, but at the 
same time, I shudder to think what the list *could* become. And I can't 
think of an acceptable idea of how to prevent that possibility.

Of course, we all could be worrying over nothing. Perhaps there will be no 
sudden big boom in population. But I can't shake the feeling that it will 
happen and the worry that the moderators will get fed up and destroy the 
list.

~Amber

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