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What if we add tags or categories to make it more organized?
by gurisingh 11y ago
What if we add tags or categories to make it more organized?
- golergka 11y agoI suspect that then we'll either have a system that is misused, or a team of draconic moderators who will ban half of the posts because they don't fit any of pre-created categories. Sorry for being pessimistic, but I've seen how efforts to categorise community-driven content have played out too many times in my life. Is there a real problem that we're trying to solve here?
- hluska 11y agoI'm not sure if you're talking about the original idea (ie - a curated list of tutorials) or the parent's idea (ie - adding tags and categories), but I have a couple ideas. The original idea could (if a community formed) solve the PHP problem. If a true beginner programmer decides to learn a language (I pick on PHP but it can happen with any language), the true beginner has no context with which to evaluate learning resources. Hence, you end up in the situation where beginners learn from bad code. Categories and tags worry me because it sounds chaotic, but it could go a long ways towards solving the problem Zed Shaw articulated in Early versus Beginning Programmers. (http://zedshaw.com/2015/06/16/early-vs-beginning-coders/ http://zedshaw.com/2015/06/16/early-vs-beginning-coders/)