I believe your proposal is well considered. I have read many a node that centered around a problem on windows, problems with HTML, etc. These topics exist and are relavent to perlmonks because Perl (as glue) is often used in these contexts.

Currently all questions are lumped together in SoPW, without any categorization. One has to scan the titles to discover the subject matter and to decide if this is interesting at that moment or not.

The advantage of the current system is one's exposure to all aspects of Perl usage and the problems therein. This is IMHO, 'A Good Thing'. On the otherhand, if one wished to focus on one area (in order to provide wisdom) one has to scan the articles to attempt to discover ones of interest. Other web communities provide both categorization and a global view -- slashdot for example.

Considering these factors, I don't favor another top level category. However, there would be wisdom in tagging nodes with a heirarchical categorization system.

Cheers

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In reply to Re: Re: Not Perl questions by freddo411
in thread Not Perl questions by nite_man

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