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|  TheJunner | May 6, 6:26pm | I just did a search for "topic" and none of the results were similar to my present query.
Is there any possibility to add "Language" as a topic? I believe "Linguistics" is not appropriate for anything that is not specifically scientific or about the science of language. It seems to me somewhat like submitting a website about computer repair shops under "Computer Science", if that helps to illustrate my point. Is this a good idea? |
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Sponsor |  imorgen | May 8, 9:40am | I don't like that you're seemingly being ignored here; this is a legitimate point and people have mentioned it several times. I think a major part of the problem here however is miscatting. Depending on the exact nature of the article I should think one of the following topics might be enough to cover it:
Cognitive Science
Culture
K-12 Education
Adult Education
Or maybe not and we do need the more specific "language" topic. What do you think people? |
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Sponsor | | xique | May 8, 9:53am | 1: Yes.
I support your request, but realize that the probability of a topic list change is near zero. It's kind of a sanctuary from what I've been experiencing during my three-year membership. However, some very few careful tweaks were applied in that period of time, e.g. the merging of "Food" and "Cooking".
By the way, a changelog for the topic list would be interesting. |
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| | TheJunner | May 8, 1:28pm | Thanks for the responses. A large part of the sites I was thinking of are about education, so I guess that's the path I'll follow.
Regarding the overall subject of topics/miscatting, it's not just a problem that content areas are sometimes encompassed irregularly or even arbitrarily. There's also the fact that most people are not exacting enough to make the relevant distinctions in the case of similar topics, so you end up with two topics that contain more or less the same kind of stumbles and the topic which should have been reserved for something slightly different is made redundant.
There is also the fact that people sometimes submit websites related to subjects outside their area of expertise. Not only that, but the purpose of the categories is sometimes so vague as to include stumbles of completely different kinds (e.g., is DJ's/Mixing supposed to be about the action of mixing? The requirements to be able to do this action? The subjects of the action? The product of the action? Videos about the product of the action, with or without focus over the action being performed? None of the above? All of the above?).
The list with all the topic-tag differences seems useful, insofar as many people sometimes inadvertently tag a page with one of the topic tags, thereby adding that stumble to the respective topic (I think that's how it works). If this is the case, there should be an explicit way to add a site to other topics, not make a site tagged as any of those things appear surreptitiously under other topics. |
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Sponsor | | Thlayli | May 8, 2:02pm | A perfect example for me is StumbleUpon which is full of Stumblers. Drives me crazy. I want StumbleUpon to return external sites about SU or rated forum threads, not stumblers.
Gmail's tags provide an alternative to a folder structure, while SU tags are simply an overlay. Pages are still, metaphorically, in a folder (topic). It'd be nice if there was a way to move away from that altogether, but I have a feeling that SU thinks in terms of folders and such a change would require a complete rewrite of the suggestion engine. |
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Sponsor | | xique | May 8, 2:10pm | | Semantics is a bitch. (Does that make sense, grammar-wise?) |
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