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Questions Displaying in more than one community?

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Related to the idea of splitting up various CD communities, we seem to be assuming that questions have to belong to one community.

Just thinking on the idea that Questions could have another set of tags (or something) that denotes what communities they show up in.

Communities remain focused this way but certain grey zone questions could then show up in 2 or more locations (if applicable). Presumably this update would be something that could be flagged for or edited.

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Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago

This seems to do nothing to address the issues I raised in https://meta.codidact.com/posts/283073#answer-283073 and also raises another issue, namely that categorization via tags (because especially, but not exclusively, abbreviations) can mean very different things to different communities and in different contexts. As an example that has no home on Codidact currently, try getting a pilot and a train driver talking about the role of "ATC" in their respective fields and watch confusion abound.

Culyx‭ wrote over 2 years ago

I had not referenced your post at the time, I was considering the split of video games into a development and games communities. Though I will clarify I think you'd want something separate from the current tags. it would behave a lot like tags, but would be it's own separate thing.

Canina‭ wrote over 2 years ago

Culyx‭ I'm not much of a gamer, but I struggle to think of a question that would be equally applicable to someone playing a video game and someone developing a video game. Still, if you have a reasonably concrete, solid suggested use case for when this feature would be useful, keeping in mind that communities are disparate but likely have overlap (e.g., game developers are likely to be interested in gaming questions in general), that would make it much, much easier to discuss your suggestion.