Even I can't believe myself
(I'll come back and add more links after class, sorry.)

There have been several essays on hp_essays lately that were about How JKR Ruined DH. I was sassy in the comments, which led to many getting frozen in the latest one.

Then the mods made a post about the guidelines, and I (chocolatepot) proceeded to wank alllll over the place. I was replying to every comment. I threw a tantrum and went crazy.

Bonus: I promised inthread never to come back, so you have a flounce - and there's no telling whether I'll hold true to that.

ETA: back!

The really ridiculous part of this is that I've only been seriously watching the comm for about two weeks. Before that, I just used newsletters to end up there.

On the sixteenth, professor_mum wrote "A Deathly and Hollow Rant" and posted it to HP_essays. It occurred to me that this was not an essay, merely a list of reasons DH hacked prof_mum off. It seemed like most people were agreeing, which further irritated me, so I posted "Lol completely not an essay" (and I am very, very sorry I did so, I'm sorry, meme!) in response, expecting maybe a little wank in return. (Actually, I'm not sorry, because I made a friend by doing it!) There was some.

A few days later, maryh10000 wrote an essay about why JKR wasn't good enough to Snape, and I disagreed once more. This led to a civil discussion. Possibly because it's an actual essay.

A few days after that, julie_dslv posted a reaction to DH that was mainly negative. This time, I was not the only unhappy person. Nearly everyone who commented before the mod came had something to say about the poster's non-understanding of certain topics. At one point, it looked like some sockpuppeting was going on. I'm still not sure what happened there. Finally, siriaeve froze the threads and left a comment stating that she wanted people to be nice and if there was a problem, email the mods.

I did so, and had a very civil discussion with siriaeve in which I was given the impression that the mods were actually interested in what others had to say on the issue of posting guidelines. We exchanged several emails and all was happy in Chocolatepotland.

Then goddlefrood, another mod, posted what seemed to be a request for discussion on the posting requirements. Remembering how well the email convo had gone, I replied right off the bat. People replied angrily to me, I replied spazzily back. The mod that replied was overly stressed and didn't really help the situation. Wank wank wank.