Re: Ringlink Directory - - Catagories

[Chuck Baslock <cbaslock at swbell.net>]

A word of caution.
All levels of categories currently may be added to. Don't know if we can
restrict that yet.
One of the advertising points was "like yahoo!"
Another point is categories may be nested several levels deep. We would need
to control the depth.
Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Turner" <confused@cableone.net>
To: <list@ringlink.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ringlinklist] Ringlink Directory - - Catagories
>
> >>>Ok. I misunderstood the system and did not realize that the two levels
> listed would have third levels below. I thought that the two levels listed
> would be the only levels and all rings would be in one of those.<<<
>
> No problem - sometimes me don't speak so well :D (Big Grin)  Only joking,
> according to the program documentation we can have as many sub levels as
we
> wish.
>
> >>>BTW . . . one thing I DISLIKE about the Y!WR categories is that rings
can
> belong to a higher level category.
>
> Consider a category of
>
> Arts and Humanities / Literature / Fiction
>
> On the Y!WR system you can categorize your webring as
> Arts and Humanities
> or
> Arts and Humanities / Literature
> or
> Arts and Humanities / Literature / Fiction
>
> This really bothers me. I'd rather have all webrings at the third level,
> even if it is... <<<<<
>
> Let me look at the program again - I think we can prevent rings from being
> add to at least the top level categories by not making them a  true
category
> just a heading/description, but I am not sure.  I will get back to you on
> that.
>
> It was one of the thing about the RS directory that I didn't like either.
>
> Debby T.