Factual Errors (was Voldemort's choice of Harry)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 77451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wendy St John" 
<hebrideanblack at e...> wrote:
> > 
> Now me (Wendy):
> 
> I'm with James on this one. I see your point Geoff, but the fact is 
that we
> have rules on this list, and lately, IMHO, there are lots and lots 
of
> posters who haven't been following them. I know there are TONS of 
new
> people on this list in the past couple of months, and that they 
need a bit
> of time to get up to speed with how the list works. But when I 
joined, I
> made a point of carefully reading through all the posting 
guidelines and
> following them to the best of my ability, and I don't think it's 
too much
> to expect for others to do the same. In my own case, I went back 
and read
> some of the things that had been posted in the past, and I lurked 
for a
> while before posting, so I could get a feel for the tone of the 
discussions
> on the board. I'm not suggesting everyone else should do this, but 
I do
> think that it's not too much to expect for someone to do a bit of 
research
> of their own before submitting something to the list. Of course 
discussion
> topics are going to come up again and again here. That's part of 
the fun.
> But I get really annoyed to read a first time poster starting out 
with, "I
> haven't seen this discussed on the list. I joined yesterday," and 
then
> continue on with a post about something that had been discussed in 
depth
> the week before (sometimes, literally, even the day before). There 
is a
> search function on the message board, and no matter how much we 
joke about
> Yahoomort, I've always had pretty good luck searching. It's at 
least worth
> a try. 

Geoff:
And then you get a situation such as I had three days ago when I used 
the search function to backtrack a thread and then found after a 
great deal of digging around that it had changed its thread title at 
least twice prior to that which made following the thread back to its 
origin rather difficult.......