What's the best way of getting people to use this catalogue ?

[carolynwhite2]

I've just trawled my way through a particularly dull patch of posts, 
full of people asking the most teeth-grittingly obvious things, or 
making completely facile observations.

Every now and again, Admin put up a notice grimly asking people to 
read the FAQs they have written, but clearly to little avail. And, 
IMO, it continues to happen all the time on the current list.

This catalogue should be a great resource to help improve the quality 
of posting, but only if people enjoy using it, and can use it to 
locate stuff quickly and easily.

Assuming anything is possible on the technical side, and knowing what 
you are stuffing away under various categories, can you pause for a 
minute and think how you might use it to answer a particular query ? 
What features are really necessary?

Take a difficult category like Snape, for instance - well over 1000 
posts already. Finding what you want is very tricky, although not as 
bad as having to read 27000 posts, of course.

Also, would like to get your views on the second level edit - how 
tough we should be, what the criteria could be for pruning further..

Carolyn