When posting a new idea, would it be possible for "Category" to be a mandatory field that doesn't default to any category, but instead insists on one being actively chosen? By all means keep "Other: General" for genuinely genre-bending ideas, but I can't see an idea in it at the moment that couldn't find a home elsewhere in the 'Bakery.-- friendlyfire, May 09 2003 Had similar issues before http://www.halfbake...0other_3a_20generalNB [jutta]'s comments [lurch, Oct 05 2004] [marked-for-deletion] - "you too". http://www.halfbake...orial/help.html#mfd [DrCurry, Oct 05 2004] That's what the moderators are for. ;)-- DrCurry, May 09 2003 I'm sure the moderators have better things to do with their time than tidy up after newbies, lazy people, and the forgetful.-- friendlyfire, May 09 2003 //you too// Are you suggesting I should be deleted, Doc? :,-(-- friendlyfire, May 09 2003 no, he's not, friendlyfire <g>-- po, May 09 2003 There, is that any clearer?-- DrCurry, May 09 2003 [DrCurry] Yes, much, thanks. I wasn't so much trying to say, "Do it like this, dammit!" as suggesting a way that the user would naturally end up doing it like that. Prevention being better than cure, and such.
I dunno - poorly communicated (and, having read Steve DeGroof's anno on "Make default category NOT other: general", redundant) ideas, misconstruing well established terms - I'm really riding the newbiecycle today. Perhaps I need sleep.-- friendlyfire, May 09 2003 [ff] Wrong category. Consider other: general.-- Worldgineer, May 09 2003 LOL, and touché, Worldgineer.-- friendlyfire, May 09 2003 imposition?-- -alx, May 12 2003 Maybe HCVOESC. Short for hot chestnut vendors on every street corner.-- Worldgineer, May 12 2003 //I too once thought that a "you too" was a call to delete me, as well as my shit idea.//It was. *snicker*-- thumbwax, May 12 2003 all and the baker's dog?-- po, May 12 2003 You mean other people didn't have to take polka lessons?
Rods_, the decatorisation of which you speak has happened to me several times. Almost like the ideas migrated to other:general of their own volition.-- waugsqueke, May 12 2003 reensure: if any at all, it would have been a Darwinian thing anyway.-- DrCurry, May 12 2003 random, halfbakery