Time after Time

[quigonginger]

I finished reviewing the Time Travel and Time Turner categories.  I 
have a thought.  Could we combine them for now?  Time Travel now has 
59 posts, and Time Turner has 54.  The total is 101 as some of them 
are coded to both.

Many of them which are coded only to one mirror others in the other 
category.  We could actually cut out a few more if we combined them. 

In doing the Time Travel category, I rejected 46 posts and uncoded 
Time on 9.  A few were mistakes which could lead to confusion.  A few 
just said "I hate time travel."  or "JKR does it differently than Bob 
Smith (or whoever)." and nothing else of substance.  Since there was 
so much repetition, I only kept posts that were original, explained 
things well, or were insightful or amusing.  And I couldn't resist 
keeping the one that said "Welcome to the group, Catlady.' for 
posterity.  It was a valid post aside from that as well.

I got rid of every "if Harry could go back and save Buckbeak, why not 
_______? fill in the blank:  Cedric, his parents...) and added 
nothing else, and every answer that said Beaky didn't die and added 
nothing else. 

I am forseeing that we will get a lot of the same thing in the 
future, as I have personally participated in way too many of these 
threads.

Unless JKR brings back time travel in the future (ouch), I don't see 
this category growing by a whole lot.  Most of it will be repetition, 
with several dozen well-written explanations kept.  We are 
approaching the time I joined the group, and I remember those 
discussions vividly!

I was going to go through each category and kind of come up with a 
list of the types of posts in each, but I am getting a "cannot 
display page" right now.  It happens.  I'll try again tomorrow.

Until then, something to think about.

Ginger, pointing Sean to message 126972. (giggle, giggle)