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[sionna-raven.livejournal.com]

I have been a member of HP fandom for many years. Recently I have become an active member of Pottermore. I know what most of you think of that site, but I hope you may consider the members a valid part of fandom. We, the members of Pottermore need your support. The site is malfunctioning, badly moderated and overall a mess, but the wonderful and not at all "stupid, blind worshippers" we met there make us stay. I have already asked for support on my own journal, but without much success. Now I'm asking here. We are organizing a protest, have written and emailed a petition and need more publicity. Due to errors in the programming accounts are disappearing, due to incompetent moderation people get banned and suspended by trolls. Active Players from all houses have united now to make our concerns heard. Here's a link to the petiton on my journal http://sionna-raven.livejournal.com/48478.html

Once we were all united by the love for the books and I thinkeven you still love some of the characters. Don't let the Ministry Morons drive us out of Hogwarts!

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[rattlesnakeroot.livejournal.com]

My friend hwyla told me to come and look at your post about Pottermore. Our friend subtle1science recently had her account deleted, so I'm hopeful now that perhaps it will reappear.

I didn't get here in time to sign the petition, but I really appreciate that the fans came together to push Pottermore to respond. I thought their blog post about the deleted accounts was insulting to everyone's intelligence ("sorry your account is gone, but hey - your house still gets the points, so yay!)

I haven't had much trouble with the site, but I'm not very active. I just read the new stuff and look at the pictures, having given up on Potions and Dueling a long time ago. I think fans understand how complicated the website is, but there is so much more they could do to make it better.

[sionna-raven.livejournal.com]

Please tell subtle1science to contact me via personal message here. I can give her an email address to get her account back.
The Insider post doesn't refer to the "vanished" accounts though. The points that are slowly (too slowly) returned are points from really user-deleted accounts.
There is some improvement on the site since we delivered the petition. One of my friends was in London and had a nice two hour coffee with a PM representative. He took notes of all our complaints and suggestions.

None of us active players are there because of the "wonderful" gameplay, the "amazing" graphics or the exclusive content. We stayed in the mess that is Pottermore because of the people. There's a lively PM-based community on Facebook with chat, discussion, fanfic and art. There are two good forums Gryffinroar and Runes Potion Chamber (Slytherin-only). Even in-active PM members are welcome to join us ;)