Questions, questions ...some fixes

[carolynwhite2]

Anne:
In case you're interested, the Battle of the Books is put on by our
local library. Teams of 5-7 Middle-school children read eleven books, 
and then in mid-April they gather to answer *very* nitpicky 
questions, three per book.

C: Pah, just *three* nitpicky questions per book! They wouldn't 
survive a millisecond on HPfGU...

Potioncat:
I've found Mad-Eye coded in some T-bay posts. He is a player in the 
posts, they are well written...but let's face it, some of them are 
almost fanfiction. What's the general feeling out there? Would you 
want to look up "Character" and read through a T-Bay post that 
the "Character" was a part of? In this case, Mad-Eye and Frank are 
chasing after Death Eaters.Mad-Eye isn't the main character in any of 
these so far, and I've had no trouble removing him from ones where he 
was mentioned in passing. But some seem less obvious. 

C: So what happens when you take him out? Are you effectively 
rejecting them?? 

::sulks::

Sigune:
And so, licking her lips at the prospect of the coming onslaught, the 
sinister damsel continues making damning notes...

C: You should see her collection of featherboas. Always the quiet 
ones..


Jen:
Also, take the same post example as above--you don't even have to 
change anything for the codes to drop off. I tested one out by just 
hitting 'set category' without making any other changes and the 
codes from the purple section still dropped off.

C:
I realised that this problem was not confined to section 4 headings, 
but would affect any posts that currently were still sitting in any 
level 2 heading (x.x). So, today, I have spent hours going through 
every such heading listed on my Sunday update and quickly moving the 
posts in them to a safe location. Otherwise, people could have 
accidentally lost the whole coding on complex ones just by hitting 
save and not seeing there was a level 2 head included in the list.

Am I glad you spotted this Jen! And especially for you, I have moved 
all the posts sitting in the general book heads to a level 3 'book 
review' head. There are two versions of this for CoS, POA and GOF - 
the heading you had begun moving things to, plus a heading 
called 'OLD' reviews. These are the posts formerly in the book 
heading which you have not yet reviewed. They can now sit there 
safely until you get to them, rather than risking disappearing, 
should anyone be working on a post with a level 2 book code in it.

Potioncat:
It seems a shame not to just wack away at it. >Unfortunately, you 
don't know if someone has looked at it and is coming back or if you 
>are the first to look at it.
Talisman:
I vote: whack the suckers. If it readily appears that 
the post is a reject, why make anyone else look at it again? (You 
know that if YOU want to whack it, I want to whack it.)
Now Ginger:
AMEN SISTER! WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!
Sorry, I've been in the General section of Shipping too long.

C: Dear, dear..and you all seemed such nice women..perhaps it's the 
company in here. I agree, it is tempting, why not..

Ginger:
In the new lineup, the category "General" replaces the 
old "RelationSHIPPING". It is a little odd to see a category just 
called "General". My first response was "General what?" and I was 
the one coding it. Could we change that to "General Ship" or 
something like that, so that it reflects the idea of Shipping?

It's good to be back. I just about went nuts this weekend without 
the coding. I found I had forgotten what it was I used to do for 
fun. I read a book instead. The plot went over my head as usual, 
but the humour was good.

C: I have amended the section title to read 'General SHIPPING' - I 
created the new heading for the same reason as above - to take the 
posts out of the level 2 head and down into a level 3 head.

Alas, it is addictive. I have spent most of the day on this emergency 
fix, when I normally have a rule: 'no cataloguing before 6pm'.. So if 
the business goes belly up in 6 months time, you know what's to blame.

Carolyn
Who is far from bionic, but is nevertheless eyeing up the big wooden 
paddle on the wall in case of mass insurrection..