About list tone, was Responsibility for Black's death

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 80162

Irritated List Poltergeist on deck, speaking for the ears of the list as
much as A Featheringstonesomethingorother.

AF recently responded to a message, that had been responding to some of
his/her own comments. So far, so good.

However, the tone and slant of this post was very critical and
patronizing--NOT of the point, which is allowed, I'm quite critical of some
discussion points myself*--but of the POSTER. This is manifestly NOT okay.
Challenges of interpretations are fine. Challenges of a fellow listmember's
maturity, intelligence, perception, or other attributes are NOT.

I speak from the perspective of (a) someone who has been on this list for
very close to three years and (b) a list admin, that AF's tone was much more
in the nature of argument than discussion. And this is not an argument list.
This is a discussion list.

If any of you have a burning need to humiliate, ridicule, patronize, or
otherwise ill-use a fellow listmember, please do so offlist and do not
burden the rest of us with your rudeness.

~Amandageist

*Snape is NOT a vampire