Currently, its a little anoying that a post in an invalid category will get locked for off-topic, instead of being moved.
We see this a lot with development discussion, quite a few threads there get locked for being off-topic, when it would be better to be in scripting support, or a related help category.
good idea, and instead of a message that your post got taken down how about a message that it got moved
Didn’t the moderators (or Editors?) do this a few years ago? Either way, I agree with this request since some posts should just be moved as opposed to being delisted entirely
Good idea but it would be better to just use AI assissted category suggestions. Like before posting a message should pop up saying something like:
Why would they need to? It’s the OPs job to make sure they’re putting a post in the right category so they can get proper responses, not to mention so they aren’t breaking rules.
The mods are there to remove rule breaking posts, that’s almost their entire job, and that’s clearly a struggle for them. Don’t put extra load on them with something like this.
Real. Many people create bug reports in forum bugs or whatever and then expect stuff to get moved automatically. The inbox for mods is probably already overflowing of shitposts so someone asking “pls move this to X category” would make it 3x worse
It causes a lot of moderation issues such as saying a swear in a private category and a mod trolling everyone by moving that into a public category where swears are prohibited
Moderators can already do this. This feature request has zero effect on that
