chat sessions

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "severelysigune" 
<severelysigune at y...> wrote:
> I am sure this has come up before, but I just can't find the info I 
> am looking for, so here goes again:
> I have come across a batch of posts transcribing a Scholastic chat 
> session, followed by a large number of comments. I thought the 
> transcripts might be worth saving (or not?), so I marked them 4.5 
for 
> the time being. What is the general policy? And how about the 
> comments? Should they be coded for every topic that comes up? That 
> seems overdoing it a bit...
> 
> Eva/Sigune

Carolyn:
Yes, I would code the transcript to 4.5, JKR interviews, as it is 
useful to have it recorded there. As to the replies, it depends how 
substantive they are. If one of JKR's comments sets off a good 
discussion, that's fine, but if it ends up as a series of one-liners, 
especially about things we have subsequently found out a lot more 
about and analysed to death, then I tend to chuck into 'adds nothing 
new'.