Compromise: WAS Factual Errors

[Fred Waldrop]

No: HPFGUIDX 77614

"Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
<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.......>

"scoutmom21113" <navarro198 at h...> wrote:
I have to back up Geoff on this one.  I just did a search for 
messages on Cho and came up with the following subjects (partial 
list):
 
Fudge Naive or DE? (was "is there a reason?")
Re: Does Snape Think Of Draco As The Son He Never Had?
What do Muggles Know? (Was: Re: Christmas Gifts from Dursleys)
Re: Metamorphmagus!Harry?
Re: Snape Vampire Theory: Where did this come from?
Re: Hagrid and thestrals
Chocolate Frog Cards (was: UK vs US Harry Potter)
Re: Dumbledore's Family?
 
If Cho's name is even mentioned in most of these messages, I missed 
it.  So if I ask a question about Cho that was answered two weeks 
ago will I get jumped on?  
 
In the interest of sanity and harmony, I propose a little 
compromise.  Posters will make every *reasonable* attempt to see if 
the information is already there.  And readers will just skip the 
messages that have been answered to their satisfaction.  Afterall, 
we still have several years to go before book 6.  Most of what we 
are saying now will be discussed many many times again before then.

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Hello all, Fred Waldrop here;

What bothers me most, mainly because getting "false info" does not 
bother me, I pretty much know what's in the books, is the fact 
that some people either do not know how to or plainly REFUSE to cut 
out all the extra stuff from the message before sending it to the 
list.
For example: (and I copied this as-is, EXACTLY off message 77440)...

From:   "Talisman" <talisman22457 at y...> 
Date:  Fri Aug 15, 2003  5:39 pm
Subject:  Re: Factual Errors (was Voldemort's choice of Harry)

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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. 

Talisman, who, like Snape, does not have unlimited leisure time, 
points out:

1) JKR has said about 100 times, and it has been repeated on this 
list about 1000 times, that she is not writing her HP series for 
children. Opps again, CW.

2)Discussions, free or otherwise, are always more enjoyable and 
productive if people actually know what they are talking about. 

3)It's a sorry state of affairs if preferring actual canon makes one 
an elitist.


Talisman, who knows how to check her text.>>>>



If Talisman would have cleaned up this post, most of it would have 
been much easier to read, and it would only have taken about half the 
amount of space.
So, to me, a mistake is better than all the clutter, but, this is 
just MHO though.

Fred Waldrop
Who hopes Talisman does not think I am picking on her personally, but 
was reading her meaasge while answering another. And also hopes that 
if she gets mad at him, she will please forgive him.