Main List Problems

[Kirstini]

Melody wrote: 
>>>many of the battleharden posters on this site *have* already, or 
are going to, take a break for a while. We are closing the site down 
in our mind <snip> now it is not going a way and the excuse of OoP 
enthusiasm has waned.>>>>

I dunno. This evening (alright, it's three in the morning), I 
wandered into the main list, expecting more of the same - badly 
snipped incoherant posts, with some randomly named authors, which 
would make me angry and therefore disrupt my sleeping patterns 
further (I don't know why I do it). I was really rather excited, 
therefore, to find lots of little surprises on the list. Spanking new 
TBays from Abigail, Marina and Derranimer, all "battlehardened" 
posters if ever I've read them (no offense, ladies), some lovely 
posts from Talisman and Kneasy (not so battlehardened, still worth 
reading in Kirstini-world) and some rather wonderful, thought-
provoking discussion on rape and Umbridge from various people, many 
of whose names I didn't recognise (this is a big thing for me, as I 
came back from holiday and went into a massive strop about not 
recognising anyone anymore. And then Kathryn's post made me hang my 
head a lot), all of whom operated at what people have been calling 
the "pre-OotP standard". I felt like a kid in a sweet shop. Actually, 
I'll rephrase. I felt like a starving orphan child who had just been 
handed the keys to a sweetshop *and* her Hogwarts letter. And some 
new shoes. Because I really like new shoes.

So cheered was I, in fact, that I scrumpled up the petty little note 
I'd been keeping of badly snipped posts and one-liners, all ready to 
SNEAK to MEG and bother everyone (before that, I was taking discreet 
theraputic revenge by emailing bad posters, but a few days lurking 
around on these threads made me feel thoroughly ashamed of myself). 
Yeah, they're still around. But I only found two today, and the 
quantity of quality posts more than made up for it. Don't close down 
in your mind, Melody. Come and have a look at what's still out there. 
And once you've done that, blooming well post the MDDT response to 
OotP! Don't you people realise you have a responsibility to your 
fans? 

Kirstini
All serenity and good karma today. Mostly.