ADMIN: Fatastic Posts - Where Can We Find Them?

[abigailnus]

Dear HPfGU Members, 

Hello from the FAQ team! We're in charge of writing the Fantastic 
Posts essays, which can be found at 

http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/ 

These essays collect posts on a variety of different subjects, 
ranging from The Weasley Family to Justice in the Wizarding World. 
They also provide summaries of important and popular theories 
such as LOLLIPOPS or George. The Fantastic Posts are a great 
asset to group members old and new, providing a coherent 
perspective on the ideas that came before us. They also allow us 
to save from Yahoo! oblivion those posts which are truly 
remarkable and worth remembering. 

We on the FAQ team are eager to get to work on updating the old 
FPs and writing new ones in the wake of OOP, but we'd like you 
all to help us. Have you read a post recently that really made you 
think? A well-written post, that offered a new perspective or 
submitted a new thoery? In short, have you read a Fantastic Post 
recently? If you have, we'd like to hear about it. 

Before you get going, a few words on what makes a post Fantastic. 
You might want to check out some of the posts referenced in the old 
FPs to get an idea of the kind of quality we're looking for. Also, 
bear in mind that a a Fantastic Post should: 

1. Be well written and coherent 
2. Present new ideas or offer a good overview of old ones 
3. Have good formatting - good grammar and spelling, capitalization 
and punctuation where appropriate, more then one paragraph, etc. 

There are three simple ways to let us know about a Fantastic Post: 

1. We've opened the FAQ archive group to posting by the general 
public. You can e-mail us at 

Fantastic_Posts at yahoogroups.com 

Please use the following template when sending us a 
recommendation e-mail 

Fantastic Post number: 
Author of Fantastic Post: 
Topic of Fantastic Post: 
Date of Fantastic Post: 

Not all fields have to be filled, but we *must* have the message 
number - finding a message in any other way is all but impossible. 

2. You can also reach the archive group homepage the same way 
you might go to the HPfGU homepage and post a message from 
there. The URL is 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fantastic_Posts/ 

Simply use the 'Post' link on the sidebar. Again, use the 
template above, and be sure to include the message number. 

Please note that you do not have to join the group in order 
to post. In fact, in order to keep the archives list manageable and 
nominations confidential, we are limiting membership to the 
Fantastic Posts team.

3. A database has been created on the HPfGU homepage. To get 
there, simply go to the homepage and click on the 'Database' link 
in the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen. Scroll down the 
list until you find a database entitled 'Fantastic Posts'. Click on the 
title and you will be transferred to the database page. From there 
you can simply click on the 'add record' link at the top of the table 
to make your suggestion. You don't need to fill out all the fields, 
but you must include a message number. 

Important note: please do *not* forward a message to the archive 
group. A forwarded message will not contain a message number, 
and that will make it impossible for us to locate it. 

Finally, any post you send is only a suggestion. If you look at the 
old Fantastic Posts you might notice how few messages they actually 
reference. This isn't because these are the only good messages in 
over 70,000 posts, but because if we were to include all the fantastic 
posts ever made to the group we would drown, and the very purpose 
of the FPs is to provide brief and concise overviews of ideas on the list. 
We can't promise to use every post you send us, but we do promise 
to read and consider every one with all due gravity, no matter who the 
author is. 

Wishing you happy hunting, 

Abigail
For the FAQ team