Proposed changes to reject categories - pl. comment

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Does that mean we can invent some more? Like :
> Boring
> Whiner
> Pompous prig
> Self congratulatory

'I am *not* going to be murdered,' Barry said out loud.
'That's the spirit, dear,' said his mirror sleepily.


> More seriously, we have categories for DD's agenda, Voldy's agenda; 
> would it be useful  to have a category for Motivation/Suggested 
> Motivations for use with all the other characters?

So, is this accepting that 'DD's agenda', 'Voldie's agenda' should be 
moved back into the character sections, as I have been suggesting for 
some time? We will have to agree some sub-sections for many of the 
characters. Eg, to date:

Harry has 364 posts
Snape has 277 posts
DD has 186 posts
Sirius has 122 posts

It would be more helpful to users of the catalogue to break them up 
into sub-categories. Is it too early to start thinking about this, or 
should it be done on second review?

> 
> OK - Fantastic Posts again. A possible contender - 6942.
> May be contentious for some - it's a FILK. (Never thought I'd 
consider 
> one of those.) Nice and witty with a marked Tom Lehrer influence, 
IMO. 
> (It gives a precis of the running plot in all four books to date.) 
Do 
> we want to try and get FP examples from most/all categories of 
post? So 
> we end up with the best FILKs, best TBAYs, best commentary, best 
> analysis, best theorising - or do we pit each against the others by 
> measuring against some objective standard?

I'm amazed you even read it; I never do myself, eyes glaze over, tick 
the FILK box and hasten onwards. This didn't do much for me I'm 
afraid - not half dark enough for Tom Lehrer. I like Caius' political 
posts though, I agree he's got a wicked sense of humour there, and 
always a promising sign when Admin has to call a halt to a thread.

Erm, well other people can select FP FILKs if they like, but refuse 
point blank to even review them myself. Didn't we decide that Caius' 
site did the job for us? 

Is it possible to compare different styles of posts objectively ? 
What would be the criteria?

> 
> Also - I've now finished my current allocation.
> 
> Barry

Good, here you go: 10251-10750, and I hope for your sake that they 
have finished that shippy/ficcy thread...got very slushy underfoot.

Carolyn