On 22 May 2018 at 10:15, Yoann Rodiere <yo...@hibernate.org> wrote: > I counted at least 3 mis-categorized topics just this weekend, and beyond > the notification we also have to categorize them ourselves. > > Unfortunately I can't "encourage" without enforcing a strict rule. Discourse > only has an option to force people to chose a category, not an option to > make it more obvious that people should chose a category. > That's why I suggested the "Miscellaneous" category: they will be forced to > pick a category, but if nothing fits they can always pick "Miscellaneous". > Obviously I don't imagine that people will think "Miscellaneous" will fit > their needs exactly, that's a last resort.
Ah. What about a "" category ? Maybe that will encourage people to stop a second and think about it, yet have the option to go ahead? > > On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 11:06 Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> >> +1 to encourage people to set a category >> >> but I wouldn't require strict rules, it's not like we're flooded with >> notifications? >> >> In particular, I see no value in a "Miscellaneous" category; it's not >> like people are going to think "cool, Miscellaneous is exactly what I >> was looking for". >> >> On 22 May 2018 at 09:43, Yoann Rodiere <yo...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > We've seen a few posts on discourse lately without any category. More >> > often >> > than not, these are about ORM (which makes sense since most posts are >> > about >> > ORM). >> > >> > This is a bit annoying since it makes it hard to configure Discourse to >> > only receive notifications about topics we want to actively monitor. >> > >> > Would anyone object to disallowing uncategorized topics? I can create a >> > "Miscellaneous" category if you want, but I'd really like people to pick >> > a >> > category when they create a topic. >> > -- >> > Yoann Rodiere >> > yo...@hibernate.org / yrodi...@redhat.com >> > Software Engineer >> > Hibernate NoORM team >> > _______________________________________________ >> > hibernate-dev mailing list >> > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > -- > Yoann Rodiere > yo...@hibernate.org / yrodi...@redhat.com > Software Engineer > Hibernate NoORM team _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
