What are the Categories in our Discourse Forum and When to Use them

[33691A-Gold_Dusk]

Hello All,

I have decided to embark on a small project to help organize this forum through a master thread with detailed descriptions for each category, allowing new users to be better acclimated to the forum and not post topics in incorrect categories. This should be a thread that’s easy to access. I could use some help from fellow Regulars on this Forum to develop this and for that reason I’m going make this a Wiki.

VEX IQ General Discussion

INSERT SUBCATEGORIES HERE

VEX IQ Challenge Discussion

INSERT SUBCATEGORIES HERE

VEX EDR General Discussion

INSERT SUBCATEGORIES HERE

VEX Robotics Competition Discussion

INSERT SUBCATEGORIES HERE

VEX EDR Tech Support

INSERT SUBCATEGORIES HERE

Website & Forum Support

INSERT SUBCATEGORIES HERE

I hope through this we can strengthen the forum etiquette and make it easier to find things and stay organized

[Codec]

All the categories already have topics with what to write pin in them like…

About the VEX IQ General Discussion category

Discussion related to the VEX IQ system.

About the VEX IQ Robotics Competition Discussion category

Discussion about the VEX IQ Competition, presented by the REC Foundation.

About the VEX Robotics Competition Discussion category

(Replace this first paragraph with a brief description of your new category. This guidance will appear in the category selection area, so try to keep it below 200 characters. Until you edit this description or create topics, this category won’t appear on the categories page.) Use the following paragraphs for a longer description, or to establish category guidelines or rules: Why should people use this category? What is it for? How exactly is this different than the other categories we alr…

These are however a bit allover the place with having too short descriptions and others putting a wired template for writing posts.

The only problem with your thing is that it will just sink in the timeline and new people will see it. There is also this wiki thread with a lot more Wiki but it has the same problem, new users just wouldn’t see it. You would need an admin to permanently put stuff like this somewhere where, especially new, people will see it.

[33691A-Gold_Dusk]

Yea that was kinda my idea… once it’s done we can have @DRow pin it for new users

[Barin]

Honestly, in my opinion, the category names are self-explanatory. I really don’t see any further explanation helping with the miscategorization problem.

In general, the people miscategorizing topics usually seem to be either people generally unfamiliar with online forum usage or people who just don’t bother reading (not reading forum usage guidelines, asking questions explicitly answered in the game manual, not bothering to search existing topics, …).