ADMIN: Where we'll be discussing the movie

[Neil Ward]

[Flying Ford Anglia sidles in wearing a slightly-too-tight usherettes
uniform, wielding a torch and hefting a tray of delicious ice-creams.  The
other Mods hide behind the sofa]

Roll up, roll up - all the fun of the fair!  Oh no thats the circus. We
re talking films, arent we?  And talking of talking films

The results of the recent movie poll, to decide where well be discussing
the HP movie, were:

**202 in favour of keeping movie discussions on the current list, with
spoilers;
**51 in favour of a temporary movie list;
**154 in favour of a permanent movie list;
**8 in favour of moving movie discussions to OT Chatter.

This is pretty even stevens, with a slight majority in favour of moving the
discussions to another location, at least temporarily.

After some deliberation, the consensus of the moderator team is to move all
Harry Potter movie discussions to a separate list and review the situation
periodically.  It is very difficult to tell how active the movie list might
be between films, since discussion of content will still relate
overwhelmingly to book canon, so we'll just suck it and see.

We have heard some valid arguments for keeping the discussions on the main
HPfGU list and, to be honest, we are reluctant to fragment the list further
and possibly create more admin work.  However, we've already seen an
increase in the number of movie-related posts to the list and that trend is
likely to continue once the first film is out.  Also, the necessity of
enforcing spoiler space on movie or movie-book posts for several months
after the release date could, in our opinion, become a real chore.

Had a large majority voted against moving the discussions, we would have
kept things as they are, but, given the very close call, it seems more
practical to make a distinction between discussions of the two media and go
ahead with a separate list.

****So [a roll on the drums from behind the sofa].heres the address for
the new list, HPFGU-Movie:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie

Please follow the hairy usherette into the room on the left, sign yourselves
in and, from the dawn of All Saints Day, confine all your chatter,
observation and analysis on the Harry Potter movie to that place.

Translation: From 1st November 2001  thats the day after Halloween - if
you want to post about the Harry Potter movie, please do it at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-Movie and not on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups.

Get over there as sharp as you like, and join up!  One more time: no more
movie discussions on the main HPFGU list after Halloween.

[Okay, already!!! We heard you the first time!!!!]

Until then, please continue to post to the main list using the MOVIE:
prefix.

Oh, one more thing:  Any comments on this decision should be hurled through
the moderators dungeon window at MagicalMods at yahoogroups.com.  Please,
please, please, please, pleeeeeeeeze dont comment on the main list.

Cinematically yours,

The Magical Moderator Team