Major concern and other topics

[Eddie]

No: HPFGUIDX 161176

> > Katherine wrote:
> > New opinions are always good, but it kind of rubs me the wrong way 
> to  
> > have people come in and say "you are overlooking this" or "I have  
> > this new idea" when the ideas are far from overlooked and far from 
> new.
> 
> 
> Potioncat enters, sets out a variety of cups, mugs and glasses.
> [...]
> But I might suggest...have a ginger snap....that instead of asking a 
> question, each of us should offer up a good strong post around the 
> question so that a lively discussion will be generated.

Eddie:
(Is this the place to discuss forum issues?)

I, too, get somewhat miffed when somebody asks a dumb question that
could be easily answered via the list's Search function, or Google, or
Wikipedia, or searching at The Harry Potter Lexicon (
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ ) or the Leaky Cauldron (
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/ )

And I promise not to do that so much any more.  :-)

But, no offense to the good elves who manage this list, this Yahoo
message-posting forum arranges its knowledge in a way that it is
difficult to find _INFORMATION_.  If I want to find out who are the
canonical Gryiffindor heirs, searching on "Gryiffindor heirs" produces
115 search results, many of which are twisted in with posts that are
unrelated.  (This last part is complicated by the HPfGU policy of
limiting the number of posts by one person per day, which encourages
people to post very long posts on multiple topics).

Anyway, I think we owe it to the newbies to make them (me) feel
welcome.  If we know a topic has been covered before, it would be nice
to provide a link to those discussions.  I'd suggest that such
"pointer" posts not count towards the posters daily 5.

Eddie