Some people see this forum purely as a technical forum to solve problems or discuss applications, however some just like to have fun here and get involved in the community.
Which is why I think it would be great to have a new tag to mark a thread as just being for the fun of it. That way the people who are here for the technical part can blissfully ignore these threads.
In my opinion, the open chat category is not sufficient enough for this purpose, since it is also the only place to share your own scripts, applications and tutorials.
Case in point:
Which received a lot of negativity and apathy from some users, while receiving a positive response from others.
Itās already in the open chat area, which is a non-technical section of the forums - donāt know that a tag is necessary, but Iāll chat with the other staff members and see what they think.
Unless there is some way that Iām not seeing to not see purely social tags, Iād rather not see the forum overly polluted with completely off topic stuff.
There are already no shortage of purely social services on the Internet, not everything has to turn into a social club.
Discourse does let us allow tags only in specific categories - so we wouldnāt add it to the support categories, just the open chat category. You might notice in the open chat category, for example, that youāre neither required to add a tag nor are all the tags from the technical sections (I believe) available (some of them are, which may not really be necessary).
But the point of open chat is to have just a place to chat casually - so a tag specifying āfunā seems redundant to me.
In an ideal world that would be true, but it seems to me that even the open chat category is also for technical reasons only, for some users. I just thought a simple tag wouldnāt be too much work and would easily identify a non-technical thread as such.
I seem to have forgotten to mention this, but of course. The tag should only be available in the open chat and the soapbox category. The technical categories should stay as they are.
You can take your work seriously and have a sense of humor at the same time. Itās not illegal. I used to work at one of the biggest oil companies in the world and during meetings it was a free for all that would reduce this forum to dust. The company is disgustingly successful even though they are laughing and having a good time. I think some toughening up is in order.
And the obvious: if you donāt like the content of a thread, STOP READING IT! Also not illegal.
No, it doesnāt. Itās so rude in here. And Iām not going to report anyone for saying āwordsā that I donāt personally like. Iām not a baby.
The problem is that a user canāt hide a category. So if you want to see more than just one category at a time, you look at the language top level category and get it all.
I would love to be able to not see Open Chat or Soapbox and filter out anything to do with Leap, but I canāt. So classifying something under another category doesnāt really solve any problem.
Thatās exactly what I am aiming for. With the tag, someone like you could easily identify that a thread isnāt for them. However I think that the ability to hide a category would be too much work right now and would also be detrimental to all the āseriousā threads in the open category section.
As long as it doesnāt violate the Code of Conduct, thereās nothing wrong with that if members of the community want to have those discussions here. Youāre not required to read them.
A fair point, though, that the open chat stuff shouldnāt appear in ālatest postsā. I think discourse can be set up to do that, but Iāll have to look. If we implemented the āfunā tag, it wouldnāt be in the support areas, just in the open chat areas.
ETA: At the very least, users can mute categories theyāre not interested in, and they donāt show in the ācategoriesā or ālatestā views (I have non-English sections hidden, and Iāve never seen anything from those categories in my lists).
