Re: Improvements to the forum ?
- Posted by ryanj Feb 01, 2015
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I agree that categorizing messages is a good idea. However, basing the categories on the tags does not sound so good, because: it would lead to an indefinitely growing number of categories, and the categories' names would not be very well defined, as each user would be tempted to use his own term for a tag/category. What we need is a fixed classification scheme. And there should not be too many categories.
I venture a scheme like the following:
- Announcements, polls, administrative issues (creating a new thread here might be restricted to the administrators)
- Language development & various issues (discussions)
- Code, code code... (the code-focused area)
- Beginners & learners area (questions, resources, etc)
- Off-topic
In any case, I don't think that ther categories should be many.
You have a good point. I think multiple categories should be assignable for searching/filtering purposes, but perhaps each thread should have a "main category". which can only be one of the few specific categories that are defined by the admins. The main forum page would show those main categories, but if you want to filter for a more specific category such as "gui" or "WEE" or "Redy" or "tutorial" or whatever, than you can do that. How does that sound?
