Factual Errors (was Voldemort's choice of Harry)

a_reader2003 carolynwhite2 at aol.com
Fri Aug 15 20:39:57 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 77430

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "James Redmont" 
<jamesredmont at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > But the Lestranges and Crouch Jr didn't torture the Longbottoms 
> until 
> > after Voldemort tried to kill Harry and lost all his powers..  > 
> 
> > KathyK
> 
> Me (Redmont):
> 
> Too right.  Am I the only one who's sick of telling people things 
> like this?  I think the admins should start making a list of facts 
> people keep screwing up and list them in the database somewhere.  
> For instance:
> 
(snip)
> James Redmont, who feels that getting the facts straight will allow 
> these discussions to be more enjoyable!

CW replies:

Am I the only one who thinks you are over-reacting by posting such an 
unpleasant message ? Ok, I forgot the order of something when I was 
tired late at night, and I've thanked Kathy for pointing out my 
mistake. For goodness sake, its a free discussion board about a 
series of children's books. I suggest you read a funny and perceptive 
post from Wiley Willowsbough (77115) on the intrinsic nature of such 
sites and get some perspective.

I also think it would be very hard to find enough people to moderate 
everything that's sent to a site like this with the volume of posts 
that it carries, and that such draconian policing would deter people 
from participating.

Perhaps you think that would be a good thing, but it seems to me 
better to encourage as many people to join in as possible, than risk 
encouraging a clique of contributors to develop, with the narrowness 
of vision that might entail. Personally, I am quite prepared to wade 
through, tolerate/ignore the various mistakes, repeated questions, 
utterly boring FILKS and interminable SHIP discussions, in the 
interests of turning up some novel idea from a fresh mind.


 





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