[hibernate-dev] Disallow uncategorized topics

[Yoann Rodiere]

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.

On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 11:06 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at 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 <yoann at 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.
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Yoann Rodiere
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Software Engineer
Hibernate NoORM team