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Posted by Homer T. Nacho Cheese 1909 days ago
Category: Content filtering | Tags: categories sub
It would be nice to have subcategories for any of the given categories.

For example - Drugs can be divided into over-the-counter, prescription and illicit categories.

For the classifieds category, you could have a subcategory for job search to include sites like monster.com. It may be acceptable to look at classifieds, but most companies would not want their employees on monster.com.

Also, there is a category for radio, and someone suggested a category for music. Why not a parent category for music, with sub categories for radio, on-demand music, record labels (BMG, Virgin, etc.).
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written by david 1906 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Comment: + -

I like the idea, and it would be interesting to have a Religion category perhaps, with separate subcategories for different religions? Just a thought of something else possible if subcategories were available.

written by Homer T. Nacho Cheese 1906 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

If one was to subcategorize religions, does any of us really want to spend the time to classify a site by religions such as Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Southern Baptist, etc.? There would be an endless set of categories. Still too many categories if you divide Christian, Muslim, Bhuddist, Scientology, Atheist, etc. Maybe subcategories of "Common Religions" (for lack of a better name), "Cult Religions", "Fake Religions", etc.

Also, if submitting to "Religion", it should be assumed that a site is one of the common standard religions. Only put those sites that do not fit the general parent category norm into a subcategory. Same goes for any other category. Although subcategories can be good, it is best to save the subcategories for the special-case or exception. Another example could be the Humor category. Maybe it is OK to let users go to those funny sites, and a lot of sites are already listed there. Then you have the humor that should probably not be viewed by children, which hopefully is a subset of less than half the size of the whole group - create a subcategory here for this stuff.

Although this could be a good idea, it also has the potential to be a bad idea if implemented incorrectly.

written by masa 1904 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Comment: + -

This might be a potential problem for the extension.

written by Nathanael 1877 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Comment: + -

mmm...could be cool for some categories, but would not want to make it too confusing.

written by Mikel 1816 days ago Rating: 1 | Rate Comment: + -

A note on the example "Drug" category as discussed above: That category's description plainly states 'illicit or illegal drugs or their use.' It was never intended to be used for prescription drugs.

The abuse of that tag, as well as many others, lead to false tagging of sites such as medical support and reference pages, inluding one site I saw categorized as a "Drug" page, because it contained information about legitmate drugs used to treat Parkinson's.

Abusive misidentification of tags already in place is what is making the list become overly restrictive to the point that is about to become a tool that is too much sugar for a dime, so to speak, for those of us trying to manage our IT networks.

written by humblec 1703 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Comment: + -

If a health site allows questions about illicit or illegal drug use- it gets added as a 'drug' site even if it's main purpose is not the promotion of illicit or illegal drug use. How would these be differentiated without diluting the filtering? Do we add a scale for each category 1 to 5 with an option to block all,1+, 2+,etc. With each site voted on by the community- with a possibility of a lock when a certain number of votes is reached.

written by turtles 1585 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Comment: + -

Yes,

Another example: I'd like to block all webmail, exempt for hotmail (and related domains). It would be nice to be able to add exceptions for popular services. For example, to just allow hotmail and messenger, we need to allow those domains:

get.live.com

login.live.com

loginnet.passport.com

messenger.hotmail.com

messenger.msn.com

msn2go.com

msnmessenger.akadns.com

nexus.passport.com

svcs.microsoft.com

And some other weird domains...


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