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↔️ How would you Categorize All Groups and Posts on SW? 🔃

Hello all! 🖐️
We have been moving ahead with plans of restructuring Similar World's Groups and Categories (for all Post types).

As most users may already know, the existing various groups that exist on SW, were imported (many hundreds of thousands) from the defunct website, EP.

To properly organize and improve Similar Worlds, we aim to provide a Category based Hierarchal structure, for all Posts on SW.

This will allow posted content to be properly grouped and categorized,
so that users will finally be able to see more of the content they are looking for,
and less of the types of content they wish to not see.



To move another step closer towards having these changes made, we would now like to allow users the opportunity to suggest to us (the SW staff):

What Broad Categorization do you believe to be most accurate, for the various existing groups and categories that currently appear on our website.


We will be working on a feature, yet to be released,
likely a Drop-Menu of Categories, which will exist within each Group on this site, whereby any user can place their "Vote" for the correct categorization of that group, by making a selection from the Drop-Menu list of options.



Below is a sample (but not the final) list of Broad/Top-Level Categories we are considering, to group of all posts on SW within.

(Further categorized into sub-categories, but we will address this later.)

List of Broad / Top-Level Categories on SW (Incomplete / Pending)

• Career
• Fun & Questions
• Health & Fitness
• Identity
• Interests
• Life
• Politics
• Relationship
• Religion
• Self-Improvement
• Sports
• Struggles


• Questionable (suggested to be Reviewed)
• Illegal (strongly suggested to be Removed)


You can assist us via the comments section below,
by proposing a final list for our Broad / Top-Level Categories
(or by simply suggested adjustments to our list).



The options listed as:
• Questionable
• Illegal


... can be utilized by users, to help bring to attention inappropriate groups more quickly,
so that we can sooner flush out unwanted and inappropriate groups and discussions, from our Similar Worlds community.



Previous Admin Announcements on this topic:

Clarification on Group & Post Changes:
https://similarworlds.com/100-Admin-Announcements/3432517-Clarification-on-Group-Post-Changes

🔄 SW Group & Category Re-Structuring (Feedback Appreciated) 📩:
https://similarworlds.com/100-Admin-Announcements/2149687-SW-Group-Category-Re-Structuring-Feedback



Thanks and kind regards! 🙂
-SW Staff
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adorbz · 26-30, F
This seems like a great idea :D and a good way to sort out all the disorganised groups

They seem like good broad categories (although Interests is especially vague - maybe needs to be broken down a little further although I’m not sure into what. And a family one would be a good addition!). But I think you should consider also having a ‘this does not fit into any of these categories’ option with a text box and the groups where this option wins the vote would be reviewed with new categories added for them. I’m sure there will be some that don’t fit these categories!

There’s also a lot of groups which are just a verb - ‘I Love’ is one I use a lot because it has a lot of potential meanings and when my post is unspecific this feels right. But that and a lot of others like them won’t fit well into categories like this at all, unless maybe there is a ‘verbs’ category but that might be weird? I’m not sure 😅

Either way I’m really happy to see you working on this and I can’t wait to see what you come up with! This seems like a great solution 🎶