Reject categories - final comments pl./Lists of Questions posts

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003"
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
 
> >>Put 0.8 and 0.8.2 together/ OR put 0.8 and 0.8.1 together leaving 
> 0.8.2 on its own
> 
> 0.8··Adds nothing new
> 0.8.1····Mere agreement
> 0.8.2····FAQs & their answers
> 
[...]
 Perhaps 
> what I am saying is that the current list of topics regarded as FAQs 
> (in the HB) should eventually be reviewed against what goes into this 
> merged category, since the stuff here will represent our collective 
> view of things which have been discussed too often to even code up.
> 
> But, if people prefer, we could just put 0.8 and 0.8.1 together, and 
> leave 0.8.2 as a separate category for the time being.
> 

Anne:
I see your point. By all means, lump all of 0.8, 0.8.1, and 0.8.2
together if you like. As I code, I've noticed the old HBfile FAQ list
doesn't seem to have been very comprehensive, anyway.

On  a completely separate note, you did bring up the subject of posts
that are basically lists of questions for JKR which generate threads.
 Did you ever say how you code these?  I'm thinking about it from the
end-user's point of view.  If a posts contains a few words on each of
a dozen or so subjects, how useful is it to code it up to a dozen or
more categories?  Would a user want to wade through the thing to find
the two lines on Snape he was looking for, when that one point is
almost bound to be contained in a more "normal" Snape post?  Perhaps a
new category called "Lists of Questions/Ideas/Predictions" to handle
this type of post would be useful, since they are interesting in
themselves but not really useful for research. The lists of short
predictions of things we would see in OoP just before its release
would fit here, as well as lists of questions for JKR and even lists
of favorite lines. On the other hand, a reply to one of these
containing longer responses to one or three items would be coded up as
a normal post.

Anne