I am unsure about the goals from the moderators on this one, but would the same tagging conventions we’re used to from posts and the top bar be useful for discussions as well? I already see posts where the ‘GAMES’ ‘TECHNOLOGY’ or ‘FILM & TV’ categories would be perfect fits. I’m still new to the organization of discourse however, but I felt like this might be worth considering.
What say ye? Are those categories useful to the format, and do they align with the moderation and navigation goals for a Big-D-Discourse?
You know at first I thought you were joking but then I thought a little more about it, and it began to seem really Boing-Boing-y to use mood words instead.
I haven’t tried, but is it possible for a topic to have more than one category? Kind of like tags on a blog post? Perhaps the Discourse categories could take their cues from them.
Perhaps I’m jokingly chiding myself for feeling ecstasia in the realm of Boing Boing but the thought of being able to mainline the experience, intuitively plunging yourself into one or another band of the boingey spectrum is appealing to me.
Perhaps trusting the writers, mods, community or some kind of machine learning to provide accurate and influential (,tailor-made?) descriptors.
So @beschizza we are thinking that the community really should have a few categories to create topics in. It will help with discoverability and so forth as @sam has noted – leaving everything as “uncategorized” is not ideal over the medium term.
However we are hesitant to set up those categories knowing that you are planning to rearchitect the default set of categories at the top of BB right now:
