Request for Policy Explanation (WAS: That's It For Me, I Guess)

[atticlights]

Well, Hi All!

I'm a relatively new member who has been lurking for a while, and 
I've got to admit that this response from the Administration around 
here is enough to make me not want to be involved with this list.

I checked the HBfile, and this is what it says:
"The list elves also send messages offlist to members, for example, 
to welcome new members, answer members' questions, provide posting 
guidance for new and old members, and send howlers. These are also 
official communications and will be signed with the list elf's elf 
name on behalf of the admin team."

And *this* is what the HBfile says about 'courtesy':
BE COURTEOUS. Do not flame, send obscenities or spam, engage in other 
discourteous, disrespectful or illegal behavior or discuss list 
policy onlist (send comments to HPforGrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com 
instead). Before posting, consider how other members of our diverse 
international community might react to your post. Remember that 
sarcasm can be difficult to convey in written form, and that 
expressing opinions as fact is a sure way to provoke Snape-like 
responses. When in doubt, save your message overnight and reread it 
in the light of dawn. 


Attic Lights:
So, am I basically correct here in understanding that the only really 
banned topics are flames and list-policy?

<Attic Lights winces>

That does seem a mite, well, *authoritarian,* wouldn't you say?

>From an outsider's perspective, it looks like Cindy here had some 
legitimate concerns about the way that this list is run... who ever 
would have thought that there was backstabbing, betrayal, and power-
mongering here at HPfGU? 

And the Mods have decided to reward an interested citizen by asking 
that she unsub from the FP group?

I suppose the most obvious question is, if she's so interested, why 
not solicit her input instead of telling her to bug off?

-Attic Lights, a new person who has no intention whatsoever of 
questioning list-policy around here if this is the result, and who 
has no interest in becoming an interested citizen if this is how 
they're treated.