Ghost in the Machine/Hey, think before you decode!

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at y...> wrote:
> Ok, either something is haunted around here or my computer is 
whacked, 
> but I put myself in the database for teachers from Binns to Vector 
> other than McGonnagal, read the posts, made my notes and went to 
> uncode/reject and after doing about a half dozen found that THEY HAD 
> ALREADY BEEN DONE!  Now this would not have been spooky had I started 
> doing this several days ago, but as I hit the printout of them THEY 
> WERE CHANGING RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES! 
> 

Carolyn:
Um, undoubtedly what's happening is that people are taking off more 
than the code they are dealing with as they sort out another category. 
I know we kind of agreed this was ok, on the grounds that it might be 
the last chance that a post was reviewed, but unfortunately it could 
waste other people's time - as here, when poor Ginger has carefully 
gone through and decided what to do with a bunch..

This is really tricky and I don't know quite how to prevent it, other 
than not touching category codes which are yet to be worked on - you'll 
need to check the database for which ones those are. And, please note, 
if you remove codes on categories that HAVE been reviewed, that means 
you are disagreeing with the person who has recently read that section 
all the way through, so think twice about doing that too...