Quidemort/Keeping up

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39880

The Random Monkey wrote:
> Quidemort? Sounds intriguing! Can you e-mail and tell me what that's 
> about, please?

You've probably alrady been told this, but it never hurts to make sure:
"Quidemort" makes a reference to the Voldmort-possesed Quirrell, on the 
basis that Voldemort was partially controlling and always listening/
talking to Quirell. It's the same idea of saying Real!Moody and 
Crouch!Moody, but I suppose that VoldemortPossesed!Quirrell is just a 
tad too long.

> The Random Monkey, who is trying to figure out how the veteran 
> listies keep up with al these posts!

We don't, we discriminate (at least I). I can normally know if there is 
something worth discussing (from my PoV) by reading the first few lines 
of the post (if it's a muliple thread post, I obvously read each 
begining), and then I normally scan the text to see if anything jumps 
to my attention. Normally, when the first post of a thread does no 
interest me, I don't follow the thread at all (this is what happened to 
many listees with MAGIC DISHWASHER, and now it's too late to turn back, 
so the best way was to make the resume I did).

Still, sometimes you'll find that you don't have time even for that. 
Then you've got to start guessing if you'll like the thread by it's 
name (that's why it's important for the threads to be correctly named). 

If you don't have time even for this (hey, we've all got our share of 
stressfull days/weeks/months!), you've normally have to abandom all 
hopes of reading all the threads and when you come back just accept 
that there are threads you'll never know about. When that happens to 
me, I'm also very self-conscious that someone may have said what I 
would like to say two days before, so I normally have to re-introduce 
those wonderful "sorry if it's been said before" disclaimers.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who is prepared to accept other people consider him a 
veteran listee, but who didn't expect to sound like a mod... but he 
does.