Is there any way the askville people can combine some topics?

I see tons of question topics that are essentially the same thing. Since people type in their own topics, new ones are created all the time. What about a system where when you type in something new, they ask if one of these already created topics would work?

Could they possibly go through and combine a few? For example askville, askville beta, amazon askville just to name a few in that category. Or children, youths, child, kids.

I think all are pretty much the same and could be combined into one category. Right now I am level 1 in over 100 things, and many should be the same thing. I am level 0 in over 500 categories.

I understand the wanting to let people choose their topics, and that now you can search, but what about adding one more page where if you add a new topic, they ask if an already existing one from a suggested list could work. Does anyone else see a problem with this? Asked by shaelyn 49 months ago Similar questions: askville people combine topics Amazon > Askville.

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We all feel your frustration in this.....but there really isn't anything as users we can do about it. It all has to come from the Askville developers; they are the only ones who have access to the programs that would be needed to make your suggested changes. I'm guessing they must have their reasons for doing it this way: we've been complaining about this very thing for almost a year that I've been coming here.No mention has been made of any plans to clean the topics up by Askville.

Many of us have volunteered! I guess the only thing we can do is to be careful when we ourselves topic questions. I've seen it even from experienced Askvillers--they mis-spell a topic is the usual error, so that of course creates a whole topic, like the "ramdom crap" I noticed the other day.

Or they try to be funny, and add topics like "the I don't care topic" or silly things, not considering what it's doing to the system. The purpose of adding topics to the questions after they are asked is supposed to help people figure out how to topic better, but I haven't seen that happen. But it's a step in the right direction, at least.

If people use the topic listings when asking a question, they really do help in keeping the same categories going and not adding new ones.

I think that is a great idea! Hope the 'powers that be' will read this and consider it!

3 You can give them feedback about this. And you might also like to use the "search askville" feature. This question has been asked before, more than once, so you might get some suggestions there too.

I see tons of question topics that are essentially the same thing. Since people type in their own topics, new ones are created all the time. What about a system where when you type in something new, they ask if one of these already created topics would work?

Could they possibly go through and combine a few? For example askville, askville beta, amazon askville just to name a few in that category. Or children, youths, child, kids.

I think all are pretty much the same and could be combined into one category. Right now I am level 1 in over 100 things, and many should be the same thing. I am level 0 in over 500 categories.

I understand the wanting to let people choose their topics, and that now you can search, but what about adding one more page where if you add a new topic, they ask if an already existing one from a suggested list could work. Does anyone else see a problem with this? Asked by shaelyn 53 months ago Similar Questions: askville people combine topics Recent Questions About: askville people combine topics Amazon > Askville.

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I think that it would be an excellent idea. There are so many topics that are the exact same thing except that one is plural. For example there is recipe and recipes and those could easily be combined.

There are also bunches of topics that are topics simply because some question asker misspelled the topic so you might have Askville and aksville, same topic except one is misspelled. It would certainly clear up a lot of clutter if they would at least combine topics like these. Sources: my opinion .

We all feel your frustration in this.....but there really isn't anything as users we can do about it. It all has to come from the Askville developers; they are the only ones who have access to the programs that would be needed to make your suggested changes. I'm guessing they must have their reasons for doing it this way: we've been complaining about this very thing for almost a year that I've been coming here.

No mention has been made of any plans to clean the topics up by Askville. Many of us have volunteered! I guess the only thing we can do is to be careful when we ourselves topic questions.

I've seen it even from experienced Askvillers--they mis-spell a topic is the usual error, so that of course creates a whole topic, like the "ramdom crap" I noticed the other day. Or they try to be funny, and add topics like "the I don't care topic" or silly things, not considering what it's doing to the system. The purpose of adding topics to the questions after they are asked is supposed to help people figure out how to topic better, but I haven't seen that happen.

But it's a step in the right direction, at least. If people use the topic listings when asking a question, they really do help in keeping the same categories going and not adding new ones.

You can give them feedback about this. And you might also like to use the "search askville" feature. This question has been asked before, more than once, so you might get some suggestions there too.

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