I have found the hub topic structure to be incredibly lacking. I understand that having limited selections increases organization, a good alternative to spammy looking article directories with hundreds of topics loaded with thousands of sub-topics - but we could certainly use a few more than what we have. I find myself struggling to find the right fit (and settling on a main topic, ignoring the subs) far more often than not.
So my suggestion is to make a "suggestion box" of sorts on the new hub creation page. I know that with thousands of new suggestions every day would be a pain in the butt to deal with - but that could be remedied with a simple "voting" system, so the staff doesn't even get notified of a new topic suggestion until it has reached a minimum threshhold of people suggesting the same topic.
Then, we would still choose one of the available topics - but be notified if one of our suggested topics gets activated, allowing us to migrate our hub over to that topic.
I understand that last part might be quite a task to code, but the suggestion box itself would be relatively simple...just throwing the suggestions into a database somewhere that can be easily managed.
Just sayin, it'd be nice.
We're actually in the midst of a Topic expansion project right now, though it takes a lot of time and effort to flesh out our leaf-level Topic pages.
We did have special channels through which Hubbers could recommend new Topics in the past, but those suggestions tended to be few and far bateen (and most were no coherent), so we now think that the best channel is to just recommend a new Topic via the Forums.
Please do recommend any Topics you think we might add- and if you want to be super awesome, provide a custom description for it, too! It would help us a ton.
by Simone Haruko Smith 14 years ago
Hello everyone!Now that Money Grows in Hubs has moved on to final judging stages and all entries have been entered, it's time to reflect. This has been an AMAZING contest. We had 5,707 total entries (1,073 of which were part of the Daily Bonus Topics), which is much more than the 770...
by Carolee Samuda 13 years ago
For a couple of months now there have been no suggestions by this tool. I have to select whatever phrases or words I want to link. What has happened to all the suggestions this tool used to give?Why would your Karma score drop from 97 to 87 in one week even though you have been using the link...
by Has_aWayWithWords 15 years ago
I have 11 Hubs to make it to 30 in my first 30 days which is my goal, I am taking suggestions on topics for my next 11 hubs. I will write on sports,construction or home improveets, green energy, current events, technology, and finance. If there are some hubs you would like to see make a suggestion,...
by PrettyPanther 15 years ago
I am new here so it's possible this has been suggested before. How about a debate forum, separate from the other forums, where contentious topics can be debated? So, if people wanted to discuss, say, a philosophical topic in the Religion forum and someone jumped in and started debating,...
by akrami 14 years ago
Hello dear Hubbers!Please help me to find good topics or titles to write on. I can write on most of the common subjects, but have to idea about the titles to write on. So, Please help me with you suggestion in the form of most interesting topics or titles to write on. Have you any?
by kmackey32 15 years ago
I have been up since 5am in the dark living room with the worst migrain ever!!! I have tryed tylenol,water, peanut butter, cinnamon past to the forehead, Ice on my head and then heat. Nothing is working. It got so bad, I got sick!!
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