- is there..

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> ...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.

Carolyn:
aargh..no, definitely not. Just file under quidditch somewhere 
methinks...
> 


> 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. 
> 
Carolyn:
Yes, this is Dicey's view as well. Because it took so long to put 
them on, I was lazily just leaving them all there, until we got to 
that part of the list to see what happened. However, now I am 
dithering about whether to take them all out again in advance. Would 
save a lot of space on the category list I suppose.



> 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.

Carolyn:
You mean have a button called something like 'Inish Alley' on the 
finished site, which is a hotlink taking you straight to that list ? 
It doesn't sound difficult to do, for them wot knows how to..Paul ?? 
Any thoughts ?

> 

> 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!)
> (etc)

Carolyn:
Ah, now we differ here. I think that providing TBAY posts are 
identified as such in their subject line, as a warning to the 
squeamish, they should take their place amongst the other posts, and 
be coded up the same way. I wouldn't want them shuffled off anywhere 
obscure. Essentially, they are just an incisive way of making a point 
that could have gone in to a normal post. But love the Hermione/Percy 
dominatrix scenario - haven't seen that one. Must look it out.. Your 
argument for relegating it to a darkened room would be that it is 
(probably !) based on very little canon and is nearly fanfic ? Just a 
more grown up perspective I would briskly argue, and salutary for the 
SHIPPERS to encounter..

My original reason for piling all the acronyms on to the category 
list was actually because I found it helpful to find out which ones 
belonged with which character, and I still think that's a useful 
thing to know. Also, I was coding up some things a few days ago which 
were identical to LOLLIPOPS, but preceded it by about eighteen 
months - I think it is interesting to read that progression, and how 
a theory name came to define something that a lot of people thought 
from day 1.

I accept that if a theory didn't generate much interest beyond its 
original outing, it should be downgraded as previously discussed, but 
I do feel that by the same token, those theories that really became 
major concepts (such as Magic Dishwasher), should end up with their 
own category code. Most major theories got discussed in both TBAY and 
non-TBAY form, and all those responses should surely stay together ?


> 
> 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?
> 
Carolyn:
I suspect that we should begin working on it fairly soon, as it is 
also a useful way of checking what has been coded under various 
headings, and making any adjustments before the number of posts 
becomes too daunting to deal with.