Finished

[Jen Reese]

"Hmmmm... what IS this? Must be one of Hagrid's, erm, *special* 
creatures." Jen pokes around the high wall of cages surrounding 
Dung's desk while Potioncat the Fearless attempts to make friends 
with a suspcious looking toad. "HAHAHAHA--- look at this! Must be 
Dung's favorite reject code, 'Mostly Blaberus Discoidalis'....say, 
you think Carolyn would add this one?"


Dung said:
> "By the way, thanks for the reassurance on the subject of bias,  
> I'm glad it's not just me," to the office at large."

Just putting my two-knuts in here. So far I haven't run across a 
particular poster who shows up with irritating regularity, but then 
I've only coded 200 posts. But it does seem hard to avoid 
favoritism, you know? Even if I haven't read the name at the top of 
the post, and I try not to for the most part, certain posters just 
ring true for me. 

The problem is sorting out whether the content would ring true for 
most posters or just me. Generally I then try to determine whether 
the argument is solid, with canon, even for a person who wouldn't 
necessarily agree with the personal slant of the piece. But cream 
rises to the top--there's no stopping that! Some people consistently 
craft beautiful, solid arguments, and even though I may not agree 
with a whit of it, those posters end up getting almost every post 
coded.

I guess that's my bias, now that I think it through, posts that are 
personal opinion only. It took me awhile to get the "canon arguments 
only" part down as a poster, so I give people benefit of the doubt 
if they include any canon to back up a point. But yeah, if it's 
purely personal opinion....'Mostly Blaberus Discoidalis'.

Jen, thanking Carolyn for her mercy with BADD ANGST and Captain 
Remnant for his vote of confidence ('she does *too* like me' <g>).