[hibernate-dev] Disallow uncategorized topics

[Yoann Rodiere]

I can create a category named " " and force users to pick something
explicitly, but it will render poorly, especially on the home page.

What's wrong with "Miscellaneous"? I can use another name if you want.
"Cannot categorize" or something like that. I can even try naming it
"Uncategorized", but there's already a "system" category with this name
(only enabled if we don't enforce categories), so I'm not sure if Discourse
will allow that.

On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 11:22 Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:

> On 22 May 2018 at 10:15, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at 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 <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.
> >> > --
> >> > Yoann Rodiere
> >> > yoann at hibernate.org / yrodiere at redhat.com
> >> > Software Engineer
> >> > Hibernate NoORM team
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> >
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> > Yoann Rodiere
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> > Software Engineer
> > Hibernate NoORM team
>
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Yoann Rodiere
yoann at hibernate.org / yrodiere at redhat.com
Software Engineer
Hibernate NoORM team