Comments to Neil & Rita about Shippers,and wondering if anyone else agrees with me

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 13979

Hi --

Denise R wrote:

> Rita,
> I also agree with you about the shippers.  I have even set up my email
> to
> "catch" ship headings, and plop them into a folder.  In the beginning,
> I had an "auto-delete" message rule, but I lost a few "real" posts
> too.
>
> It's not that I don't have a preference.  Perhaps, it can be best said
> that after almost a year of hearing about it, I'm not wanting to
> listen to it any more?
>
> (Hopes that makes sense?)
>
> I second Rita's motion for a SHIP-list.  (Don't know if it works that
> way, but it's a start?)
>
> Neil, I do hope you understand?

Neil may understand.  *I* do not.  The shipping posts are clearly
labelled (95% of the time).  The people engaging in the debates enjoy
them.  They come & go in waves.  As Neil said, most all of the shipping
posts are considered on-topic and the overwhelming majority of them use
examples from canon to support their positions.  We are relegating
shipping posts that do *not* use examples from canon to OT-Chatter.

You've set up a system for filtering the shipping posts into a single
folder in your email system, and you *could* just trash them all
automatically if you wanted.  I fail to understand why this is a problem
for you.

There are plenty of topics that also come & go in waves that I ignore
and/or delete automatically.  I do not, however, take my *personal
disinterest* in those topics as license to denigrate those who do (or to
call for some sort of mass ban on a topic that is considered by most
everyone to be On-Topic).

CASTING as an example.  How many of those posts really have anything at
all to do with the *books* (canon)?  I skipped them all (almost).  I
mentioned that I was skipping them, but I didn't feel the need to
criticize all the people who wanted to engage in that debate or propose
that a separate Casting/Movie list be created.

The Moderator Team decided that any topic that we've written (or are
writing) a FAQ to cover is considered "On-Topic" for the main group.  To
the extent that any of those topics veer OT, they will be asked to move
over to OT-Chatter.  We've made it abundantly clear that shipping posts
that do not use examples from canon need to go to OT-Chatter.

Just so no one is confused, with the exception of the foregoing
paragraph, this rant is in my capacity as Joe Q. ListMember #157 (not in
my capacity as a Moderator).

Penny
List-Member


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