ADMIN RE: [HPforGrownups] New polls for HPforGrownups)

[cassandraclaire73 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26397

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Daniel Siegmann" <entilzha at c...> wrote:
> 
> The OT group shouldn't exist. If it's a discussion of HP, then it's 
on-topic  for this group and should be here. If it's not, then I'm 
not interested in reading it. Thus, I am not subscribed to the OT-
Chatter group and have no interest in the extra mail I'd have if I 
did (this group is busy enough)."

It seems a bit harsh to announce that a list that a lot of people 
enjoy shouldn't exist. Most of the discussion that goes on there is 
in fact HP related but believe me you don't want it on the main list. 
Arguments about "Who's hotter, Harry or Ron?" are certainly HP 
related but do you want them on the main list? I didn't think so. 
Ditto "What's the sillient pairing you can think of?", polls as to 
fave character, in-depth discussions as to what the exact ingredients 
are in butterbeer, "I saw someone who looks just like Draco Malfoy in 
the supermarket" and so on. Certainly nobody who hates that sort of 
thing need join, but I wouldn't say that everything HP-related 
belongs on the main list, because it doesn't.

"I can only speak for me, but I didn't join the chatter list because 
I was under the impression (and pardon me if I'm wrong) that it was 
mostly a discussion about fan fic, which I am not interested in at 
all."

No, the HP_Fanfiction group is for fanfic discussions. I actually 
never go to the OT Chatter group precisely because they never or 
rarely talk about fanfiction, which is pretty much all I'm interested 
in, having run out of anything to say about GoF back in January. Each 
to their own, but don't think that's what OT Chat is about, because 
it isn't.

Cassie 

NB: I think we need to keep a certain measure of restraint on our 
personal feelings. I know that I've been on the list a pretty long 
time, and therefore whenever I see yet another "How many students are 
there at Hogwarts?" post, I want to throw my computer through the 
window and cut my wrists on the shards. But it is on topic, and it is 
*my* problem that I'm not interested, not the list's. So I switch to 
webview and keep my mouth shut so as to not ruin other people's fun. 
Perhaps this post seems pointless, but when people start snarling and 
spitting at the mods and sneering at people's enjoyment of off-topic 
lists, it all becomes a bit depressing.