Reader Response and ESE!

[Debbie]

I'm finally finished with 1.2.4, Authorial Intent, Reader Response & Subversive Readings and all of its subcategories. 

1.2.4 has been reduced from 588 (plus about 15 posts that Carolyn and/or Sean sneaked into the category after I started chopping, plus the posts I axed from Authorial Intent before the merge) to 280 - more than 50%.  The good news is that I cut nothing from the last 20 or so, meaning that the late add-ons really did belong here.

Only subcategory worth a mention is 1.2.4.4. ESE!  I cut it down from 94 to 84, but the real problem with this category is not that it's too fat; it's too lean.  Lots of ESE Lupin, but Pippin's original post is missing.  Likewise Elkins' Minerva McGonagall Is Ever So Evil.  In fact, a high percentage of the posts are defenses which begin with "so many posters are claiming that [name any character] will turn out to be evil."  Yet the actual accusations are not there.  How do we fix this?  Should we try?  The category looks oddly incomplete.

I'm going back to coding for the time being (especially now that the taxes are done), that is as soon as I remember whether my tool of choice is a machete or an axe.

Debbie
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