[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: - is there..

[Barry Arrowsmith]

...and yet  another going on about the origin of Golden Snitches!
"Do they have a larval form?" Before "Quidditch Through the Ages" and 
not really worth a separate category, I think.

I've  got a feeling that very few of the theory acronyms will be used 
much, saving a small number that keep recurring, like MAGIC DISHWASHER. 
And there are over 300 of 'em. Unless, unlike MAGIC DISHWASHER, they 
only occurred  two or three times in the distant past (which to most 
posters starts last Thursday), they won't have any  reason to add them 
to their search parameters anyway. They most likely have no idea that 
they exist in relation to their object of interest.

Would it be possible to eventually tie in the Inish Alley database to 
the index? - the posts where the acronyms first show up are listed in 
that, together with the number of the original post. Anyone interested 
could chase them down that way.

Most of the theories were generated by the old crowd and many are TBAY 
related (which I think should be a listed category anyway - MADAM 
WHIPLASH is hardly the Hermione of the canon. An avid SHIPper searching 
for past pairings might be bemused at her and Percy playing Dominatrix 
games in PEPPERMILL instead of the usual slush. But I love it!)

  Newer posters have independently developed many of the same thought 
paths but probably haven't bothered to give them titles. Hopefully, by 
defining every post by category, you won't need to know the acronym to 
access the general theory, though it could be a useful shortcut *if* 
you know the acronym. How many do?

Yes, I think they should be included in the current 'define post by 
category', but maybe not in the main search engine once we've finished. 
I'm all for shuffling them off the main category list into a 
sub-section if at all possible, but it would be useful if they can be 
accessed and linked to the main post listings somehow.
Whether that is realistic is something else.

Exactly which filters would be best and how the threads are shown needs 
some thinking about. No-one's going to be happy if we don't get it 
right first  time. What sort  of time-scale before it has to be 
addressed? Can Paul advise?

Barry