Recommended Posts and Fan Fics (wasRe: Weekly Chat, 1/13/2008, 1:00 pm

[Carol]

Mike wrote:
> Actually, PC, Carol, and anybody else that's interested, the 
Recommended Posts (Post-OoP), Fanfiction, and Recommended Reading 
(Enter your favorite non-HP book here) databases have all been re-
opened to all members to add on at your pleasure. They were closed
back in 2003 because of a particular disruptive member that seemed
bent on corrupting them. (Those of you around then may remember this
particular T-BAY-er)
> 
> So have at them.
> 
> As to your question, PC, about interest in resuming them; I'm going
 to turn it around a bit and ask for an opinion, please: do you think
the elves should put out an ADMIN announcing these db's re-opening?
> 
> Mike, who re-opened the little orphan dbs but didn't know what to do
next for the poor things
>
Carol responds:

Why not announce it, with the disruptive member gone? Maybe the posts
would stimulate discussion. As you've no doubt noticed, we're stuck in
a House-Elves rut on the main list. :-( Also, of course, newbies
should know about them. It's a whole lot easier to read the
Recommended Posts than try to read the entire archives of HPfGu to
find out what's already been discussed and what sort of brilliant (if
not always accurate) ideas have been tossed around the main list in
the past.

Carol, who thinks that Mike's efforts will simply be wasted if he
doesn't announce them :-)