ADMIN: Fatastic Posts - Where Can We Find Them?
abigailnus
abigailnus at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 25 15:45:33 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 78690
Dear HPfGU Members,
Hello from the FAQ team! We're in charge of writing the Fantastic
Posts essays, which can be found at
http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/faq/
These essays collect posts on a variety of different subjects,
ranging from The Weasley Family to Justice in the Wizarding World.
They also provide summaries of important and popular theories
such as LOLLIPOPS or George. The Fantastic Posts are a great
asset to group members old and new, providing a coherent
perspective on the ideas that came before us. They also allow us
to save from Yahoo! oblivion those posts which are truly
remarkable and worth remembering.
We on the FAQ team are eager to get to work on updating the old
FPs and writing new ones in the wake of OOP, but we'd like you
all to help us. Have you read a post recently that really made you
think? A well-written post, that offered a new perspective or
submitted a new thoery? In short, have you read a Fantastic Post
recently? If you have, we'd like to hear about it.
Before you get going, a few words on what makes a post Fantastic.
You might want to check out some of the posts referenced in the old
FPs to get an idea of the kind of quality we're looking for. Also,
bear in mind that a a Fantastic Post should:
1. Be well written and coherent
2. Present new ideas or offer a good overview of old ones
3. Have good formatting - good grammar and spelling, capitalization
and punctuation where appropriate, more then one paragraph, etc.
There are three simple ways to let us know about a Fantastic Post:
1. We've opened the FAQ archive group to posting by the general
public. You can e-mail us at
Fantastic_Posts at yahoogroups.com
Please use the following template when sending us a
recommendation e-mail
Fantastic Post number:
Author of Fantastic Post:
Topic of Fantastic Post:
Date of Fantastic Post:
Not all fields have to be filled, but we *must* have the message
number - finding a message in any other way is all but impossible.
2. You can also reach the archive group homepage the same way
you might go to the HPfGU homepage and post a message from
there. The URL is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fantastic_Posts/
Simply use the 'Post' link on the sidebar. Again, use the
template above, and be sure to include the message number.
Please note that you do not have to join the group in order
to post. In fact, in order to keep the archives list manageable and
nominations confidential, we are limiting membership to the
Fantastic Posts team.
3. A database has been created on the HPfGU homepage. To get
there, simply go to the homepage and click on the 'Database' link
in the sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen. Scroll down the
list until you find a database entitled 'Fantastic Posts'. Click on the
title and you will be transferred to the database page. From there
you can simply click on the 'add record' link at the top of the table
to make your suggestion. You don't need to fill out all the fields,
but you must include a message number.
Important note: please do *not* forward a message to the archive
group. A forwarded message will not contain a message number,
and that will make it impossible for us to locate it.
Finally, any post you send is only a suggestion. If you look at the
old Fantastic Posts you might notice how few messages they actually
reference. This isn't because these are the only good messages in
over 70,000 posts, but because if we were to include all the fantastic
posts ever made to the group we would drown, and the very purpose
of the FPs is to provide brief and concise overviews of ideas on the list.
We can't promise to use every post you send us, but we do promise
to read and consider every one with all due gravity, no matter who the
author is.
Wishing you happy hunting,
Abigail
For the FAQ team
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