[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Ghost in the Machine/Hey, think before you decode!

[Ginger]

> 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...


Jen: It wasn't me this time!! I've been very good sticking only to 
my code for the last two sections I reviewed, esp. after messing up 
Potioncat's review. But it does sound like someone has taken on the 
Binns-Vector section without signing up for it?? Since the exact 
same posts you're working on are changing. I don't think it's your 
sanity or computer <g>.

Ginger:

Upon further review, and after a nice nap, what seems to have happened has only applied to a few posts that were under the same teacher.  The teacher in question was a mere "standing in the room" sort and should have been uncoded.  I think someone else realized that and was saving me the trouble.  It just sort of freaked me out.  And the weather wasn't cooperate and the lights flickered around that time.

I quit and freaked out before looking through the rest of the categories.  So it was only one or two that were effected.

In looking at the other teachers, the ones that have virtually no posts, they are totally unchanged.  

My guess is someone else was doing another subject completely and my teachers just happened to be there.  I was really worried that I was stepping on someone else's toes and that someone else had started the teachers and I was messing with them too.

I have done this on the Lupin and Draco categories, especially if they need to go under dynamics, ie removing Narcissa (who hasn't been done yet).  I guess it was just coincidental timing.  

Sorry for freaking out like that. 

Back to your regularly scheduled programs.

Ginger


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