Improving our categories here

[Robert_Best]

Continuing the discussion from About the Meta category:

@daviding

A metadiscussion can be defined as “a discussion about the rules or nature of discussion itself”.

Generally, discussion of content on discuss.openlearning.cc would be arranged into one of the previously-agreed categories.

Having a meta category allows for more tentative, less-structured conversations for orientation. After a new topic is underway, the conversation may be moved by a moderator to an already-existing category, or perhaps a new category will be created.

The above is @daviding’s take on what the Meta category was created here for. My original intention was for #meta for discussion about Open Learning Commons itself. Not to have a very general discussion about metadiscussion, or for this category to serve as a tentative space.

We also have #uncategorized , which is currently the default category on any new thread before someone assigns a more specific one. I think this should be the category we use to let Moderators decide where to put thing when the original author couldn’t/didn’t make a choice. This would also be a good time to create new categories if it seems one is wanting to emerge.

So I propose we change the description of #meta, and rename the category to Open Learning Commons (Meta) , as just #meta alone is clearly confusing/non-obvious.

[Robert_Best]

There are currently no threads in #meta anymore… so unless someone wants to pull for us to keep it… I will just delete it soon to simplify things.