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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 [i](for all Post types)[/i].

As most users may already know, the existing various groups that exist on SW, were imported [i](many hundreds of thousands)[/i] 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.

[b]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.[/b]


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):

[c=#4C0073][b]What [u]Broad Categorization[/u] do you believe to be most accurate, for the various existing groups and categories that currently appear on our website.[/b][/c]


[c=#800055]We will be working on a feature, yet to be released,
likely a [u]Drop-Menu of Categories[/u], 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.[/c]


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

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

[quote][big]List of Broad / Top-Level Categories on SW[/big][i] (Incomplete / Pending)[/i]

[big][c=#004A59]• Career
• Fun & Questions
• Health & Fitness
• Identity
• Interests
• Life
• Politics
• Relationship
• Religion
• Self-Improvement
• Sports
• Struggles[/c][/big]
[sep]
[c=#804600][big]• Questionable[/big][/c] [c=#666666][i](suggested to be [u]Reviewed[/u])[/i][/c]
[c=#800000][big]• Illegal[/big][/c] [c=#666666][i](strongly suggested to be [u]Removed[/u])[/i][/c]
[/quote]


[c=#4C0073][b]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).[/b][/c]


The options listed as:
[b]• Questionable
• Illegal[/b]

... 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.

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[i]Previous Admin Announcements on this topic:[/i]

[b][c=#005E2F]Clarification on Group & Post Changes:[/c][/b]
https://similarworlds.com/100-Admin-Announcements/3432517-Clarification-on-Group-Post-Changes

[b][c=#005E2F]🔄 SW Group & Category Re-Structuring (Feedback Appreciated) 📩:[/c][/b]
https://similarworlds.com/100-Admin-Announcements/2149687-SW-Group-Category-Re-Structuring-Feedback

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Thanks and kind regards! 🙂
[i]-SW Staff[/i]
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TexChik · F
Why not just label one as romance /intimacy/sex. Obviously there is a lot of sexual subject matter posts on here , would it not be better to just acknowledge the elephant in the room and post them all there so that those who wish to avoid them could ?
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@TexChik those are three useful subheadings under a more general category... RELATIONSHIPS?
@TexChik Great idea. 😊
RopinTexan · 31-35, M
@DarkHeaven No thanks, sometimes I want to post something about my love life without seeing stuff that’s overtly sexual. “Sex” should be a separate category from “romance/intimacy.”
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
@TexChik A body positivity group?
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@TexChik For true experiences there is the relationship section above which would need these sub categories. But I'd also want a place to post fiction.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@sarabee1995 fiction, for sure, but also long (or longish) form non fiction, like diaries... and i do not always want to have to signal intent, sometimes the funniest questions are posted as totally straight.
TexChik · F
@Yulianna i don’t expect to see a bondage or anal sex post under RELATIONSHIPS
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@TexChik In different subsections, you might. Those are aspects of some relationships.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@TexChik that's the whole point... there is a headline section RELATIONSHIPS and under that subsections for different interests.

in the end, there is nothing to stop someone posting a story about sex with animals in a farming or ranching section. people will do what they want and we must all take responsibility for applying our own filters.

first amandment rights are universal.
@sarabee1995 @Yulianna Nothing can be perfect but this organizes things a lot and could be a huge step in the right direction, in my opinion. 🖤
sarabee1995 · 26-30, F
@DarkHeaven I agree. I like it.
TexChik · F
@Yulianna the first anendment does not apply to a private website where , as a condition of use, you must accept their TOS .
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@TexChik oh thank you, that makes it clearer. so people cannot claim free speech rights to post hateful and insulting comments, if these violate the TOS?
TexChik · F
@Yulianna exactly
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@TexChik thanks, i will remember that.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@DarkHeaven @sarabee1995 can either of you tell me just what this right direction is?

this is an exercise in futility, unless the categories and groups are going to be policed to an unmanageable degree.
@Yulianna If the vast majority of politic post are in the politics category, I can block that category and it will vastly reduce the number of those I have to see by topic. Most people will follow the rules and the few that don’t I will be able to easily ignore, vastly improving my experience here. That’s basically it.
Yulianna · 22-25, F
@DarkHeaven ok, i understand that, if that's the direction you want to go in
@Yulianna 🖤🙂