Jenny wrote:
Imagine my surprise when I did subscribe! (she said, sounding like a soap advert :-)!)
New Biological Lyst!
Some of the posting has been very nasty, and I don't blame some people for unsubscribing. But there are very few people on the lyst who are acting genuinely mean; others are getting a bit heated, but I can see why, especially on the religion thread, and since they've been calm posters on other subjects I'm sure this is just one issue. And there are other threads, some are interesting and are making me think about the series and why I go to cons, some are screamingly funny, some are cute and silly.
I'm delighted to hear that you've been enjoying the lyst so much since you joined.
But the heated discussion makes me think of something else. There've been hints on the slash thread that before, slash discussion "wasn't allowed," because people on both sides thought it couldn't be discussed rationally. So it's no wonder that people are a little testy-- they've never discussed it before.
I think that there was a discussion about slash in the early days of the lyst, and I think some of the same people are still around - I don't know, really, since I haven't read the earlier archives in depth. As I understand it, it's not so much that slash discussion isn't allowed, just that people have had a tendency to fall out over it, and the subject has tended to be avoided.
I don't think it's right to say that people shouldn't talk about things they feel strongly about
On that we agree profoundly.
On the Syndeton thread: the film won't be produced by the BBC, so does that mean it won't be canon?
Canonicity doesn't really bother me; what concerns me most is whether or not it will be good! <g>
Una