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Television and Sports forums

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  • 23-09-2005 9:17am
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I don't understand the way these are set up. Why is there a Sports section with a Sports section underneath, and the same with Television?
    The way Films is done makes more sense, without the double-layer category entry.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    "Historical reasons"

    (A phrase used in several technical areas to mean "Gods it's so obvious now that we probably shouldn't have done it that way, but we did").


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    #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I find this 'grouped hierarchy' rather annoying too.

    Mike.


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    #4
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    For the same reason that there's a "Dublin City" in "Dublin County" (in real-life [tm])


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    #5
    Steveire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭Steveire


    Well, you've got your 13 categories (Arts, Biz, etc), and some of these have sub-categories - recognised because they have an epsilon(...) before their title.

    Television is a sub-category of arts, and Television is a forum in the television sub-category for general discussion.

    Notice that you can't start a discussion in a category, only in a forum. It seems to be conventional that if there's a few forums with a logical grouping, they are grouped together in category, rather than say, a Television forum with
    Big Brother
    David Hasselhoff
    Lost
    Soap Operas
    Television Awards

    sub forums, which would also make sense.

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    You can see the heirarchy in the biki: [wiki]Category:Arts[/wiki]

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    Films is a forum in Arts, and Film Awards is a sub-forum of the films forum.

    In the case of Sports, there is a Sports forum for general discussion under the Sports category.

    There is an inconsitency though in the way For Sale is organised. For sale is a closed forum rather than a category, with many sub-forums.

    Again, must be for "historical reasons".


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    #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Steveire wrote:

    Films is a forum in Arts, and Film Awards is a sub-forum of the films forum.

    In the case of Sports, there is a Sports forum for general discussion under the Sports category.

    Aye, but Television should also be a forum in Arts, by the same token, with its own sub-forums, as opposed to a category with a forum of the same name ensconsed therein.

    I do quite like the Dublin city/county analogy though, wacky as it is.


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    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    pickarooney wrote:
    Aye, but Television should also be a forum in Arts, by the same token, with its own sub-forums, as opposed to a category with a forum of the same name ensconsed therein.

    Aye, and it was that way up until only a few months ago. So why did it change?


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    I mentioned the same thing with Motors a while back.

    Rec->Motors->Motors, Motorbikes, Classic Cars

    why not

    Rec->Motors-> Motorbikes, Classic Cars

    :confused:


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