Predictions and coding (Re: the boy in the flowerbed)
Jen Reese
stevejjen at earthlink.net
Sun May 29 23:55:29 UTC 2005
Ginger:
> Any thoughts on this? We are coming up on the time when
speculation
> will be running rampant, and I think we need to define (or at
least
> come to some general agreement) on what is a prediction and should
be
> coded and what is to be rejected. What do you all think?
Jen: I ran across several threads of predictions in my last batch
and referred back to Boyd's discussion about coding to predictions
(in the "category definition" files Carolyn compiled). Seems he said
the canon posts should be coded for historical value, but pick the
best ones of course. The non-canon ones, esp. lists of who would
die, need to be coded very cautiously (if at all).
This part *is* fun to read, esp. if you run across a rather Seer-
like post. One post I had stated Sirius would die trying to save
Harry during one of his reckless adventures. And in #49037, Sharana
predicted we would see inside the MOM and St. Mungos in OOTP, and
that there "should be a really good reason to force Harry to see the
MOM." Pretty good!
Ginger:
> I also rejected a lot of "who owns the Riddle house" posts, but I
ran
> into a concern there. There were a few that I wanted to code, but
> only found the Riddle house under Geography. The description in
the
> heading said only to code about location, not about what happened
> there, but I checked and found that of the 12 posts in that
category,
> most were about who owned the Riddle house, so I went and added my
2
> or 3 more to that. Should I have done that? Or is there a better
> way?
Jen: There are several threads coded to Chap. 1 of GOF and I think
that's the best place to leave them. A few may have slipped by me
and remained coded under both the Geography section and the chapter.
I'll review that section after GOF, since the content of Chap. 1 is
still fresh in my mind, and separate out the geography ones from the
ones discussing ownership. If they add something new to the chapter
discussion, I'll re-code them to the chapter.
Jen, just back from seeing Star Wars III and wondering again if
anyone mentored Riddle to slide down that slippery slope since he
wasn't 'born evil'.
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