Main List Problems

[bluesqueak]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Miller" 
Constance Vigilance wrote:
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> I think maybe one new list might be helpful. I suggest a Quick 
> Questions list (possibly unmoderated?) where new members could 
> post questions like Thestrals or What is a flint. I can see where 
> a beginner with basic questions like that could be intimidated by 
> an attempt at searching back through thousands of questions for   
> something like that. 

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> Just an idea. Fire away.

A 'QwikQ's' list?

How do we distinguish between a QwikQ and a thread-provoking short 
question?

I'm not against the 'short questions list' idea, I'm just trying to 
figure out how the elf-doing-pendings could work out that Question A 
(Why was James Head Boy if he wasn't a prefect) is a Quick Q, 
whereas Question B (Are Hogwarts head boys always prefects?) is 
thread provoking and so Main List.

'How many students are there at Hogwarts' is a *very* short 
question. It has provoked reams upon reams of replies, much 
mathematical calculation, and endless dissection of canon. And it 
seems so simple ... 


Maybe if we worked out a list of 'these get short answers'/'these 
don't'?

Pip!Squeak