Concern:
I frequently find topics about a language tagged in the wrong category (say, JavaScript topics on the Java category).
Issues:
- This may prevent users from getting answers from users trained in the correct language.
- Other users with the same issue cannot find the answers already given.
- Topics duplicate, potentially without limit.
- Users may be discouraged from using the forum because their concerns go unanswered forever.
- The categories litter with topics irrelevant to the language/technology tagged.
- The forum becomes a confused pile of topics and information.
Proposition:
Devise an algorithm that evaluates users’ posts and suggests to them to revise the category that they will post in. This may decrease this issue exponentially.
A user might get a message like “It seems that you have a question about Javascript but you are posting on the Java category; please post in the category designed for the technology that you have a question about. Here is how to do that…”