Topic Summary catalogue question

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:

> How did it work before?  Did an elf come up with a list of topics 
> and ask for volunteers? Or were ideas for topics tossed out to the 
> masses?
> 
Carolyn:
Hasten to add that I'm not on that committee, or indeed even part of 
Admin (my choice; same reason as Groucho) - so dunno how it's 
supposed to work - Dicey, Deb?? I've a feeling that members that have 
written something good in a particular area are grabbed round the 
neck and asked to elaborate.. ie, the usual method <g>. But I would 
be interested to know more about how the topic list is/was agreed on.

I think it would worthwhile to put a suggested list of topics to the 
members (maybe on Feedback), and see what responses there were. 
Personally, I think the concept of FAQs should be re-thought. 
Dumbledore's gleam, to take the most frequently cited, is in fact a 
very interesting question, and I think this could be more usefully 
treated within a longer essay. Its a moot question whether that essay 
should, essentially, be a DD character review (I think not), or a 
mixture of character/plot review.


Kathy:
> I have one question about the catalogue.  Once it's up, will the 
> follow on reply numbers appear or just the one post and its 
number?  Or would they go back over to the main list and enter the 
number that way if they wanted to browse the entire thread?
> 
> Oops, make that two. How much uproar will it cause when people see 
> 60% of their posts are gone?  (I think I'll be lucky if 10% of mine 
> remain.) I do admit, I'm beginning to enjoy hitting the reject 
> button.

Carolyn:
All good questions. In answer to your first, the catalogue is not 
intended to replicate or replace Yahoo. If people just want to find 
replies to a particular post, then they should go to it and look for 
what is listed by Yahoo. All the backlist archives will remain up and 
running just as you see them now, they won't be taken down at all. 
Nothing will ever be deleted. We are merely making reject decisions 
within our own, duplicated copy of the archives.

The thought at the moment is that the catalogue might be an 
additional resource listed on the home page, which you can click into 
and rummage about in, much as you might look up something in the 
Lexicon.

Should we ever catch up with the main list, and any of us are still 
capable of coding, I would anticipate that additions might be made to 
the catalogue say with a week or two weeks time lag, applying the 
same rules as we have done up to now. And yes, this certainly means 
that we won't keep everything. I suppose people might make a fuss at 
some decisions, but, to be honest, that's so far in the future, it's 
not something I am going to worry about right now. Also, if we think 
their objections justified, it's easy enough to resurrect a post with 
a couple of clicks.

Carolyn
Looking forward to binning all the HBP predictions just as soon as 
Book 6 appears - keeping only the most bizarrely wrong, and a few of 
the nearly-right for posterity.

And thinking of abandoning cataloguing for the weekend in favour of 
doing a lengthy response to Kneasy, who should be knighted (or 
otherwise engaged with a sword) for his efforts to restart 
discussion...