Should people be authenticated before they are allowed to post in any particular category?

For example, if someone has only limited gaming experience should they be allowed to post about gaming? Likewise, people with limited "real" life experience, should they be permitted to post in that category? And, so on.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

This place is not about expertise. We are here to interact with people who are in some nebulous and varying sense natives of a number of different worlds. The only expertise required is the ability to make basic use of some kind of computer.

The categories are just an artefact of the owners of the site's need to cause Google to drive viewers to the site; most categories are now too broad to be meaningful as an indicator that the people who post in them are occupying similar worlds. Requiring some official permission to post in a category would be even more counter productive than all the recent changes that have been so angrily discussed.