ADMIN: An apology

[elfundeb]

As you all know, despite the geistly and elfly names, List 
Administrators are actually human.

Being human, we sometimes forget things we should know.

Some months ago, List Administration embarked on a huge slimming 
down of list rules, which were beginning to make the Humungous Big 
File as long as OOP. The result was the "[insert new title here]" file, 
which can be found (if Yahoo is being nice today) at: 
http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/admin

Unfortunately, on Saturday, one of our List Administrators quite 
simply forgot one of the changes. She therefore pointed out that a 
thread was heading perilously close to a banned topic by the old 
rules. Unfortunately, the thread was perfectly OK by the new rules.

Although certain topics (such as RL politics) used to be banned on 
the HPfGU boards, we now rely on members of this community to be sensitive to others' views and feelings in their discussion of such 
issues. 

If a discussion of a sensitive issue seems to be likely to cause 
offence to any group or individual then we will issue an official 
ADMIN asking for discussion to stop. It will have ADMIN in the 
heading, and will be signed `for the Administration Team'.

A post without an official signature (eg Dobby Elf, Peeves the 
Geist) is not an official post. It may come from a member of List 
Administration - but they are posters first, and List Administrators 
second. 

If an individual elf/geist is sending a post as part of their 
official duties, they will sign that post with their official 
signature.

Unless a post is signed 'for the Administration Team', it is *not* 
the agreed decision of the entire team.

This is obviously an embarrassing mistake, and we *are* embarrassed.  We apologise for any confusion we may have caused.

The Administration Team


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