Ship update

[quigonginger]

I have a couple of requests for input here, but first, a little (hah!)
update.  

I have read all 738 posts under trio.  I have done no rejecting or 
uncoding, but I have every post noted in my little notebook that is 
so ugly that I have never used it before.  I plan to start on that 
post haste.

The keepers:
Harry/Ginny: 14
Harry/Herm:29
Harry/Cho: 11
Harry/other:1 (Fleur)
Ron/Herm: 59
Ron/Fleur: 1
Ron/other: 1 (forgot to write down whom)
Herm/Viktor: 11
Herm/Draco: 4
Herm/other: 1 (GL)
I am also keeping 60 posts that overlap or stand on their own.

Total kept: 192

I am moving 6 to other categories (mostly Trio Dynamics as they 
discuss what any pairings would do to the friendship rather than the 
ship themselves.  

I am uncoding ship (or trio ship) on 158.  These are usually multiple 
posts where the ship factor is a "me too", or where they fit better 
under charactor analysis. There were also some that were purely TBAY, 
with no real discussion of ship, that were already coded to TBAY.  I 
believe many of these are the ones you wanted kept for posterity.  I 
am moving some to General Shipping that don't discuss the trio, 
except on the sidelines (ie Ginny/Neville).

On many of the kept posts, I made sure to include a few good posts 
from each thread, rejecting the ones that didn't add much (or 
anything at all, or me too's) assuming that the best posts could be 
threaded if the searcher was so inclined.  With 100,000 more posts to 
review, this category could get way too crowded if we included 
everything in each thread.

There is still a lot of repetition as some of the posts are LOOOOONG 
and are 70% repeated and 30% good stuff worth keeping, so the posts 
were kept.

I also kept a handful from the early club posts before GoF.  How cute 
that they thought GoF would answer all our shipping questions!

So this leaves me with 384 rejects.  Before you gasp, I'd like to 
note that quite a few of these are before the advent of OTChatter, 
and would have been there had it existed.  I think there were about 
20 in a row about "my DH and I are just like H/R (or H/H)" with no 
canon.  I'd say about 1/4 of what I am rejecting are OT in that 
sense.  There were also a lot of me too's at that time (perhaps there 
was no rule, or it wasn't enforced?).  

There were also quite a few that expressed that they liked (or hated)
a ship because it reminded them of a situation in their youth.  
Again, no canon added.  Include those in the 1/4 in the previous 
paragraph.

The repetition was so amazing that I actually double checked that I 
wasn't reading posts that I had already jotted down.

So now that you have waded through all that, here are my requests for 
input: 

Carolyn:  Do you think any of my kept categories should be pared some 
more, or should they stand until the next review?  Along these lines, 
do you think that once we have coded the rest of our 100,000 or so 
that there would be a use for H/H and H/R subheadings?  Just 
something to put on the back burner.  There's no need now. 

Also Carolyn: The (in)famous shipping wars.  I kept quite a bit of 
the beginning of that.  Towards the middle and end, it got pretty 
darn repetitive.  I only kept what was good there.  This was where 
many OT posts occured.  I again assumed people could thread if they 
so chose.

Anyone currently reviewing characters involved: (Eva, was it you 
reviewing Harry?)  I plan to uncode ship today, and do the rejecting 
tomorrow, so if it would mess you up in any way for me to reject 
posts including your character, would you let me know and I'll just 
uncode the ship part?  Or maybe we could reach another decision?  

Be assured that any rejected posts are nothing that is original to 
the character.  If that was the case, I uncoded ship and left the 
character.  I know there is a huge thread that discusses Ron/Herm 
that is coded to Harry, even though he is barely mentioned.  A lot of 
it was back and forth repetition.  There was also a thread coded to 
Harry and Viktor that went back and forth, with nothing new added 
after the first few or so posts.  

Questions?  Comments?  Advise?  Offers for to meet for pizza?
Ginger, who read and made notes on all those posts in only 21 hours!  
Since Friday.