[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Is It Just Me? (Cont.)

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

linlou43 wrote (2003-08-17 23:18):

>Hi all!
>
>  I don't consider myself an "old hand" as I have only been a list
>member since April of this year, however, I'm no newbie either. I, 
>too am frustrated with the volume of the main list. The first thing 
>I did once the list proportions grew so huge is to cancel the e-
>mails and go to webview. That said, I have become mostly a lurker of 
>late, only posting occasionally if a thread perks my interest. I 
>tend to watch threads for a while to see if anyone else is going to 
>make my point for me before I post. Most threads, however, I just 
>skip past. I did spend considerable time reading the archives and 
>FAQS before I made my first post as a newbie and frankly, a lot of 
>the current discussions bore me. As a pre OOtP member, any analysis 
>of the first four books, without taking OOP into account simply 
>don't interest me. Been there, done that. 
>
>     Perhaps a thought for a possible spin off board could be that 
>any dicussion but in some way must be OOP related?
>  
>
I share the same experience as linlou, I joined on April this year, and 
I am also deeply bored with current discussions, because of the same 
reasons. I am trying to cope by redirecting all e-mails with Ron or 
Hermione or SHIP in subject into separate folder. And frankly this is 
only think I read, and yes -- this is very bad because I'm sure I miss 
many interesting ideas and theories (like MAGIC DISHWASHER in OotP).
OTOH I think there is easy way to fix (although not 100% nice): now 
moderators accepts any letter based on it's formal value -- proper 
quoting and is it on topic. I think that they should block e-mails based 
on it's merit. I mean, they should stop all those -- "Why Harry didn't 
saw thestrals in GOF". Some letters should never be seen by us: See post 
titled "JKR and Ron Weasley" when author stated:

"Reading the five books over again in order I get the impression that 
JKR doesn't like Ron that much."
It is obvious, that this author didn't done his/hers homework.

I joined this list after finding Fantastic Posts on the Web, and wanting to read more like them. Before OotP is was just like in the Fantastic Posts. Now signal to noise ratio is unbearable :-(

My plea to admin team, please, oh please, moderate more aggresively. I would even suggests moderating *everything* (even though I am still pretty happy with my newly acquired mod-free status), and imposing a 1 month _without_exception_ no posting status for everyone new. 

BTW, do you Admins read this topic? Or should we cross-post to HFPGUADMINS@?


Regards

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Pshemekan