Category/Subcategory suggestions

[faeldray]

My suggestion is a fantasy subcategory. Maybe under "Culture & Society"? 

[Admin]

faeldray wrote:
My suggestion is a fantasy subcategory. Maybe under "Culture & Society"? 

Hmmm, that could be one. I'm not sure where it would go but it sounds like a good subcategory. Here's a live test page that's pulling the current categories out of the database in two different formats, a tabled list and a drop down list.

http://www.webringo.com/categories.php

(This is just a dev/test page that we're using for some POC testing.)

[Killer]

It is wierd to have a fantasy category in  "Culture & Society" section. Fantasy could mean those magical world with dragons and stuff. It would be better in some story books or something art section.

[Siobhan]

  Killer wrote:

It is wierd to have a fantasy category in  "Culture & Society" section. Fantasy could mean those magical world with dragons and stuff. It would be better in some story books or something art section.

I agree... i would put it somewhere under entertainment, although it doesn't quite fit into 'books, television, movies'... unless you added other subcategories to "entertainment", like a 'alternative culture' subcategory. Likewise, where would "paranormal" go? I know a lot of directories put it under Religion & Beliefs, and they usually end up under "paganism" but that isn't exactly correct, either. Maybe that should be it's own sub-category, because it's not a subset of a religion, but it is a belief (i.e. ghosts, or aliens, maybe)

Siobhan
 

[faeldray]

Siobhan wrote:
  Killer wrote:

It is wierd to have a fantasy category in  "Culture & Society" section. Fantasy could mean those magical world with dragons and stuff. It would be better in some story books or something art section.

I agree... i would put it somewhere under entertainment, although it doesn't quite fit into 'books, television, movies'... unless you added other subcategories to "entertainment", like a 'alternative culture' subcategory. Likewise, where would "paranormal" go? I know a lot of directories put it under Religion & Beliefs, and they usually end up under "paganism" but that isn't exactly correct, either. Maybe that should be it's own sub-category, because it's not a subset of a religion, but it is a belief (i.e. ghosts, or aliens, maybe)

Siobhan
 
Entertainment & Arts would okay, I guess, because it is a genre.

[Siobhan]

faeldray, out of curiosity what ring are you searching for a subcategory for? is it a role-play type ring?

[faeldray]

Siobhan wrote:
faeldray, out of curiosity what ring are you searching for a subcategory for? is it a role-play type ring?

Specifically, it's a ring about unicorns but since I'm a big fantasy fan, I may make some more rings in that sort of genre.

[Siobhan]

faeldray wrote:

Specifically, it's a ring about unicorns but since I'm a big fantasy fan, I may make some more rings in that sort of genre.

Got it, that makes sense now. Actually, would that fit into a "mythology and folklore" type category? or a subcategory within that? I mean, I personally have rings that would fit into a mythology/folkore category, so you wouldn't be the only one wanting that if it were applicable :)

[faeldray]

Siobhan wrote:
Actually, would that fit into a "mythology and folklore" type category? or a subcategory within that?

I think it could but then I might see the fantasy genre differently than other people. I definitely think they're related with one another.

[Admin]

Siobhan wrote:
Actually, would that fit into a "mythology and folklore" type category? or a subcategory within that?

Just my 2¢, but I think a "mythology and folklore" category or subcategory is a good one, and I'll try and figure out where add it. Maybe a top-level category? Or placed under "Culture & Society" or "Entertainment & Arts" perhaps?

[faeldray]

I think "Mythology and folklore" should be a subcategory of "Culture & Society" because technically, myths and folklore are an intregral part of a culture.

[Siobhan]

faeldray wrote:

I think "Mythology and folklore" should be a subcategory of "Culture & Society" because technically, myths and folklore are an intregral part of a culture.

I agree.

As for a general "fantasy" category... what would you think about a "genre" or "general" category under entertainment, and then subcategories such as "fantasy", "science fiction", etc. It's not perfect, but it's a tough subcategory to place!

[Killer]

Why don't you guys take a look at how Yahoo catagorise their listing and decide how you want from there?

[Killer]

According to the ring membership in the system, I don't see the need to expanding the ring catagory to many many sub category. It will create too many empty or just one ring within these sub-sub-category that it will be quite fustrating to see that with so many categories there is only one or no rings in it.

[Siobhan]

Killer wrote:

Why don't you guys take a look at how Yahoo catagorise their listing and decide how you want from there?

Well, I guess that's why we're discussing it over here and not in the official category suggestion thread :)

On that note though -- I'm afraid that won't be of much help.  There are far too many sub-categories on the Webring.com system to be useful here -- we wouldn't be able to fill them here for years. Just one level of sub-category is what we're trying to figure out now, but what we're trying to decide in this instance is which category the specific sub-category would go under. I've made my 'official' suggestions elsewhere, and those I do stand by as definately needing to be sub-categories.