Disheartened Newbie; read-only status?

[Susan Miller]

--- Judy asked:

> Now, I have a question for you, and for everyone else here. Several 
people have suggested that new members be placed on "read only" 
status for a certain amount of time.  Think back to when you first 
joined HPfGU.  Would you have been upset if we had had this policy?  
Would you have left, or would you have stayed and waited to be able 
to post? 

Constance Vigilance (me)

I would have stayed, certainly. My first posts were rejected by my 
elf anyway (I was proposing a future Petunia/Snape ship after Vernon 
expires from apoplexy - it was deemed uncanonical.) But I did stick 
it out and I'm still here after almost two years.

--- Judy: I believe that one exceptional member
actually read the whole main list, which had maybe 35,000 messages at
the time, before her first post.

Constance Vigilance (me)

Gee, doesn't everyone do that? It took me a few months, but I did 
slog through all 45,000 posts on the list at that time, the ones on 
the old group, too. (Of course, I was out of work at the time.) Not 
to mention reading all the posts in the current deluge. Does that 
make me exceptional, too? Or just very, very sad ...

Constance Vigilance, who still thinks that, uncanonical or not, 
Petunia and Snape would make a perfect couple. And giggles at the 
idea of Harry and his new Uncle Severus.