Proposed changes to reject categories - pl. comment

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003"
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:

> My proposal is:
> 
<snip>
> 
> 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

Anne:
Wouldn't we want to keep 0.6 as a separate category because, like the
Movie-related category, these posts might be quite interesting to
somebody? On the other hand, there is so very much to the fanfic world
that these may just be superfluous...

> 
> 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

Anne:
I'm confused. I thought 0.8.2 was for flagging these posts for the FAQ
team. Does this mean they don't need these after all?

> 
> 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.

Anne:
Why not fold 0.8.1...Mere agreement into 0.8...Adds nothing new?  Is
it to keep the size of 0.8 manageable for review after we're done
cataloguing?

By the way, for more than a week now, I've had very little computer
time, and have only kept up with HPfGU-OTC and TLC. The place I left
off on the main list was post #105292, which is nearly 2,700 posts
behind! Anyway, the point is, I did see Carolyn wanted some feedback a
week ago, too -- I'll try hard to get to it! It just occurs to me that
some of the suggestions in this post I'm responding to may refer back
to that -- if so, no need to explain, I'll see it when I review the
old ones.

Anne