Why I'm thinking of unsubbing.

[lucky_kari]

Dear Mel,

I'd like to reassure you about the disappearance of familiar posters 
post-OotP. While indeed there was The Old Crowd, and some posters did 
go there, a lot of the regular posters simply vanished overnight 
*because* of the behind-scenes problems (and you can see now how 
extensive they were!) We haven't been posting anywhere. We've been 
numb, and often very, very busy. I think this goes for the majority 
of us who have had a connection to HPFGU MEG and FAQ. 

Eileen

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote:
> This has been coming on a while now and the posts here over the 
last 
> couple of days have clarified things greatly.
> 
> 1. My first inkling of trouble was immediately following the 
> publication of OoP when it seemed that virtually EVERY familiar 
> poster on the main list vanished overnight. "Ok," I 
thought, "they're 
> formulating their usual well-thought-out responses." And so I 
> scrolled patiently through the "Why couldn't Harry see the 
> Thestrals?" posts and the "I'm new here!" posts, and the "Sorry if 
> this has been brought up before," posts while I waited. And waited. 
> And waited. It's been months now and I can still say with 
confindence 
> that the overwhelming majority of posts on the mainlist right now 
are 
> by people I do not recognize as having been there prior to the 
> publication of OoP. I have no problem with that in and of itself, 
but 
> UNTIL LAST NIGHT continued to wonder where my favorite posters were.
> 
> Thank you, Cindy, for telling us that they quietly removed 
themselves 
> from us rabble and took themselves off to a private inner-sanctum 
> where the word "Thestral" has probably yet to be typed. I find this 
> *disgusting*. Ok, you wanted some peace and quiet, I don't blame 
you, 
> but just how long are you planning to stay away, "Old Crowd"?
> 
> 
> 
> 2. I almost hit the Unsub button a few months ago while reading 
this 
> very list when I stumbled upon a group of listees, many of whom had 
> been members either about the same length of time as myself (or 
less! 
> and I've been here maybe a year and a half for your reference) 
making 
> nasty comments about "newbies" on the main list and suggesting 
> draconian methods of "dealing" with them such as implementing a "No 
> Post" period for all new listees or limiting all newbies to one-
post-
> per-day. This at at time while OoP had just been published and 
there 
> were DOZENS of current threads going on many DIFFERENT topics. 
Aren't 
> new members still put on "moderated" status? Isn't that the POINT? 
If 
> one particular new listee is posting 27 one-line responses to the 
> same thread, isn't it his/her elf's job to nudge them in the right 
> direction?  If elves can't handle the jobs they've volunteered for, 
> then they should resign. "Please limit your responses in any given 
> thread" seems like a simple enough directive. Perhaps if some of 
them 
> had spent less time b*tching and hiding they'd have been able to 
> handle the volume of new listees. Note the word **SOME**.
> 
> 3. The very idea that this idiocy is STILL GOING ON. There is one 
> bright side to it though. Post volume and active membership will 
> plummet. Think of all the free time ADMIN will have then.
> 
> 
> Mel, who gives her patience through this weekend, maybe.