Proposed changes to reject categories - pl. comment

[a_reader2003]

Now we have been using the reject codes for a while, what do people 
think about amalgamating some of the categories? Boyd wants just one 
reject button (!), but I think we do need to keep some sub-divisions 
in order to answer queries later about why some posts were rejected. 
Also, some reject categories may need some sorting out later, and 
that is easier to do if there are sub-sets rather than just one huge 
group of rejects.

My proposal is:

Put 0.1, 0.3 & 0.11 together:

0.1··ADMIN/list management related   
Posts about posting conventions, problems with connections, Yahoo, 
administrative projects like FAQs & FP
0.3··Discussing spoiler issues/problems 
Conventions to be used preceding the publication of a new book, in 
order not to spoil the enjoyment of other readers
0.11··Too illiterate, badly written              
This is for posts which are truly unreadable, even with allowances 
for English as a second language


Put 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 together:
0.4 ··Off-topic Chatter      
Anything which is not strictly about the book canon
0.5··Listings of personal favourite topics/characters etc     Polls, 
quizzes, likes & dislikes, anything which has no substantive canon 
analysis attached to it but which is merely personal opinion
0.6··Fan-fic-related          
All fan-fiction discussion and comment


Put 0.8 and 0.8.2 together
0.8··Adds nothing new     
Use this for first statement of questions, where the question is 
repeated in subsequent replies. Also use it selectively to ignore 
posts that repeat points that are frequently made.
0.8.2····FAQs & their answers        
Use selectively in conjunction with 0.8/adds nothing new, where it is 
also a FAQ (see HB for guide as to what is a FAQ). Don't use it when 
the post seems to be a new contribution to a FAQ (in your judgement), 
but code that kind of post up as normal


Put 0.9 and 0.7 together
0.9··Correction of trivial mistake in past post    
For posts correcting spelling mistakes, mis-attribution or other 
minor errors
0.7··Repeated /duplicated post  
For where someone has posted something twice in error


The following three stay as they are:


0.2··Movie-related           
Anything to do with the films that does not include a substantive 
discussion about the book canon

 
0.8.1····Mere agreement     
For posts which add nothing except agreement with a previous poster 


0.10··Mistakes/perpetrating mistakes     
Use this when you know that the premise of a post is based on a 
mistake over canon – including things we now know as a result of OOP, 
but which were not known at the time, eg who the `married couple' are 
that Sirius referred to in POA.

If we did this, I would want to re-number them all in some logical 
way and alter the titles slightly. I'd also need Paul to merge the 
categories together as some of them are too big to move the posts one 
by one.

Let me know what you think.

Carolyn

PS Paul - is there a way I can count the number of times the main 
reject button is ticked? At the moment I am adding up the numbers in 
each reject category to get the numbers each week, but I am aware 
that that number might be distorted if people have ticked more than 
one reject category when rejecting a post.