META: "Unspeakable" Subjects

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 9943

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Ebony " <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
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> 
> 3)  Is fanfiction an off-limits topic as well?  I've plugged fics I 
> like since I joined the list in July... not all or most of them the 
> five most popular.  Maybe it's my imagination, but lately I'm 
> starting to get virtual glares whenever I do this.  
> 
> Perhaps there needs to be more clarity in topics that are on-
subject 
> and topics that are OT.  On another list that Trina and I are on, 
we 
> use an abbreviation that fits in-between these two extremes, TAN-
> tangent.  That means it is related to the topic, but tangentially 
> so... Trina, perhaps you can explain this better?
> 



Yes, I'd like to know more too, as a relative newbie, about what else 
isn't allowed on the list. I personally don't mind the fanfic 
discussions. (I'm not reading much HP fanfic because I tend to prefer 
starting after the author finishes the canon, or if there's stuff 
that never got resolved in the canon that I wished had been. I'm 
guessing there'll be another explosion in the amount of fanfic a 
month or so after book 5 comes out) I like how everyone here is so 
civil when it comes to shipping and canon vs. fanon issues...because 
I'm in another fandom where people have completely gotten insane and 
irritating about these kinds of things.

 One other thing that comes to mind...I used to be on the Lord Peter 
list, which had a separate companion list for chattier subjects and 
tangental ones. Whenever people got too OT they'd go to the other 
list and continue their correspondance. I think this was also for 
volume reasons as well as on topic ones, because with egroups you can 
read the list on the web (as I do because this one is so high 
volume). 

Charmian (hope I'm using the META tag correctly. ^_^ <--anime version 
of smiley)