Coding speed/photos/review allocations/DD/MWPPetc/quidditch

[carolynwhite2]

Ginger:
Side note to Carolyn:  How in blazes did you code 1000 posts?  My 
butt gets sore after 200!

C - I don't do them in one sitting. 100 at a time, takes me about an 
hour. The standard is so low at the moment that I am only keeping 
maybe 4-5 in a 100, if that. Exactly reminiscent of the main list as 
of today - total crap with the rare reasonable point. Especially the 
covers issue - I must have rejected about 2-300 posts on what people 
imagined the OOP covers might mean when they were released.

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Ginger:
Computer illiterate that I am, I tried to put photos in the photos 
section, but I didn't succeed. If I screwed up anything in the photos 
section, I sincerely apologize.

C - hey, no worries, you did me a favour. I'd never looked in that 
file before, and when I did, I found all Maria's missing artwork that 
I though *I* had deleted when I re-did the home page. Hence a 
resurrected new picture. I can put up any pic by the way, so 
contributions welcome - just email me.

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KathyW:
I've signed up for another batch and put my name down for the 
Slytherin students, not Draco, in the review section. Carolyn, if 
your review priority is different, let me know. I need a fairly 
straight forward section. So if this one is OK I will get started.

Also, a friendly reminder, when you take a section to review, put 
your name down in both the general Review Allocation Section and the 
more refined sections. 

C - don't have any priorities, please select a section you'd like to 
do. Good point about putting your name down on *both* 
dbases..ahem..sort of thing your leaderene gets careless about.

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Boyd:
"Damn you, Smythe, you will pay for that! If you think those were 
bad, nowyou shall review all of Dumbledore! Ha ha ha ha ...." Her 
voice faded as heshimmied his way out her door, posting this note as 
he left.

C - in further off list banter with Bad!Boyd, he issues this further 
hysterical injunction:

'2.3.1 Dumbledore is the real problem. I may have to send an angry, 
invective-laced note to the team or place an official injunction 
against any more coding to it under pain of howlers. Currently, his 
box gets ticked on every 46th post on average. Yikes!'

..so, if you are thinking of coding to DD, think twice, then 
don't ...bit like the Harry category.

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 > As seen in a dog's diary: 

> As seen in a cat's diary:

..well, *I* thought it was funny.

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Ginger:
When we are reviewing, should we change things that involve new 
categories? Specificly, in reviewing Remus, I have found many old 
posts coded to James, Sirius, Remus, and/or Peter that would be 
better 
coded to the MMWP category, but it wasn't invented at the time they 
were coded. Should I recode? Or not? Should I just add MMWP?

C - yes, agree with everyone else, please do. (And the other examples 
mentioned by KathyW & Jen).

On the subject of MWPP I recently came across a thread mainly driven 
by GulPlum [53390 started it] with about 40 posts solely about the 
use of the apostrophe on Marauder's Map. Amanda quite justifiably 
made him a LOON for it, commenting [53410]:
 
'GulPlum wrote

*ten* paragraphs arguing the possible rationales, viewpoints, 
grammatical reasoning, meaning, and interpretations of the apostrophe 
placement in "Marauder's Map" and its repercussions on the canon 
validity of the use of "marauders" to collectively refer to James, 
Sirius, Remus, and Peter.

None of it was drivel. All of it was valid. Every bit of it is anal 
in the extreme. I respect that in a person.

My boy, if you were not a L.O.O.N. before, you are now. Welcome.

~Amandageist' 

Having met him in person last summer, I can assure everyone that he 
is the living embodiment of his posts. Um, fascinating I guess...

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A question of my own. I am coming across quite a few posts like 
Debbie's FP on the theme of 'Quidditch is a metaphor for the series'. 
I have dithered where to put them, and have currently stuck them 
under 'house Quidditch teams' rather than the history of the game and 
QWC.

I think we need an extra Quidditch category, or rename the history 
one. I was also wondering about moving the Hogwarts Quidditch teams 
to the Quidditch section -?? Maybe not..