Categories

[Darwin Watterson]

I think that we should create category pages to help group lolcows better, and make it easier to find them. Some examples:

"Lolcows who make YouTube videos"

"Lolcows with Kiwi Farms accounts"

"Pedophiles"

"Sexual deviants"

"Lolcows who have been arrested"

Those are just a few examples.

 

[Null]

"Lolcows who/with x" are good ideas.

The categories cannot be subjective ("sexual deviants") and I'm reluctant to add the pedophile category at all because that gets abused hard. It's such a sloppy, easy attack and it can be very harmful. More importantly, labeling someone a pedophile who is not is grounds for a libel case, so you have to be pretty fucking certain when you call someone a pedo.

Otherwise it's a decent idea. We need categorization pages regardless.

 

[introman]

"Lolcows who/with x" are good ideas.

The categories cannot be subjective ("sexual deviants") and I'm reluctant to add the pedophile category at all because that gets abused hard. It's such a sloppy, easy attack and it can be very harmful. More importantly, labeling someone a pedophile who is not is grounds for a libel case, so you have to be pretty fucking certain when you call someone a pedo.

Otherwise it's a decent idea. We need categorization pages regardless.

What about Parapheliacs?

 

[Null]

What about Parapheliacs?

Dunno, I guess like, if their key feature is their sexual fetishism? But I can't name anyone who's like that. Maybe Honda or Mylar.

 

[introman]

Dunno, I guess like, if their key feature is their sexual fetishism? But I can't name anyone who's like that. Maybe Honda or Mylar.

Lolcows with Paraphelias is pretty objective. I think you thought that my idea is referring to lulcows whose M.O is a parapheliac one(mylar/Honda), when my idea includes those with paraphelias(Rika/Rob with the trannyism/sexual weirdness,etc...) . I should of clarified that earlier in my first post.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

I've created a few categories, and also fixed the "Default sort" on some pages. Jace Connors, for example, now falls under "C" rather than "J."

"Lolcows who make YouTube videos"
"Lolcows who use Twitter"
"Lolcows who use Tumblr"
"Lolcows with Kiwi Farms accounts"
"Lolcows who use DeviantArt"
"Lolcows who livestream"
"Lolcows by web presence" (just a super category for the above ones)
"Lolcows who claim to be transsexual or transgender"
"Lolcows who have been arrested"

 

[Null]

There is no such thing as a Lolcow without a web presence. That is completely redundant.

I would suggest you stop making categories. There's probably a more clever way to organize people. Like, if they have a YouTube profile on their infobox, then add a category. I'll add it to my eternal to-do list.

 

[Darwin Watterson]

Well, "Lolcows by web presence" isn't meant to have any pages in it, it's more of a way to organize the different subcategories and find information. Like, you're in the "Lolcows who use Tumblr" category, and you think "hmm, I wonder where I could find cows who use other sites," and then "Lolcows by web presence" is right there at the bottom. They click on it, and there's all the similar categories.

But okay, I'll stop.

 

[Null]

Well, "Lolcows by web presence" isn't meant to have any pages in it, it's more of a way to organize the different subcategories and find information. Like, you're in the "Lolcows who use Tumblr" category, and you think "hmm, I wonder where I could find cows who use other sites," and then "Lolcows by web presence" is right there at the bottom. They click on it, and there's all the similar categories.

Why not just call it "Lolcows" then? It'd be like making a category called "Nazi Offers who were a part of Nazi Germany". Just call it "Nazi Officers".

If you're going to make a billion categories please do it right and don't hard-code a billion categories into a page. A category should never be directly inserted into an article and should always, always go through a template. If you don't know how to do this please don't.