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Creating an "Insights" category

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Looking at the "papers" category, I found that several papers do not fit the very purpose of this category (that's the reason I've not upvoted them). Nevertheless, they are relatively well written, well thought out, and probably interesting for new comers in electronics. I think for example most of the papers of Circuit fantasist deserve more upvotes, but this does not happen because they are not really relevant to the "paper" category, according to the expectations there (in my opinion).

What is lacking is an "Insights" category, whose characteristics could be discussed here. This category could include interesting views of well known topics, experiments that demonstrate (in an original manner) some known facts, good student tricks, pedagogy insights etc.

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We have such low volume as it is, that I wouldn't want to see another category added at this time. It would only emphasize how little traffic there is.

Let's not make the same mistake that Photography made. They have lots of mostly-empty categories.

Some day when there is enough content, I could see spinning off a Tutorials category, and moving some of the existing Papers to it. We're not ready for that yet with a total of only 14 Papers.

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A good organization should be the priority (1 comment)
A good organization should be the priority
coquelicot‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

So, the restricted number of papers is what is preventing you to agree with me, not the idea itself. While your argument makes sense, I think it's not the better choice.
Nothing should prevent a good organization of this site, even though we have relatively few material. In contrast to "Photography", we are not speaking about creating empty categories, but to organize one according to what happens. In fact, I think empty categories are not the problem, even in Photography: People in Codidact are a bit hysteric about the number of clicks to their sites; it took years to the SE forum to be popular, and so are most of the other sites. This will be the case of this site too. We have just to be patient.