Lot's of General in General

[Endur]

Forced to General

Just in case you didn't know, when I edit post one in a thread in the play by post forums, it makes me pick a category and the only available category is "general."

 

[Buttercup]

I honestly think they're more trouble than they're worth.

This is my feeling too.

I'm a librarian. I've been trained to put information into categories, and to teach others to do it. But if you don't have a controlled vocabulary with a thesaurus to tell you that, say, Places means "the town I just created" rather than "who's from the UK" then the catagories are useless.

It's a nice thought, but I don't think it's going to work. Also, the "feature" is going to irritate a certain group of people, and they'll just use General every time as a means of civil disobedience. Unless you're going to ban everyone who doesn't choose the correct category (and we've already seen that we can't agree on the definition of correct) you won't be able to enforce the use of these.