Drop-down List of Areas in Suggestion Box

[ivorygates]

Title:
Drop-down List of Areas in Suggestion Box

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Summary:
Providing a drop-down list of areas for the "Area" box of the Suggestion Box rather than making everyone guess would minimize labeling confusion.

Description:
The Suggestions Form asks people making suggestions what area of the site their suggestion is about. But a lot of people don't know what the possibilities are. And even if they do, they might all choose to phrase their citation in a number of different ways, for example: suggestions giving the "Area" as Navigation Pages, Menu Pages, and Site Pages might all be about the same place.

If "Area" is coded instead with a drop-down list from which the user can choose one of the available tags as the subject area of their suggestion, it would standardize labeling, permitting suggestions to be searched more easily -- especially if the entry is also tagged with the "Area" label. It would make suggestion labeling easier, since a drop-down would show all the potential areas in which a suggestion could be made.

For the confused and the clueless, or those whose suggestions don't fit any of the preset labels, there could be some labels like "General" or "Unknown" (or even "Help Help I'm So Confused").

Administrators and mods would have the option of changing the Area tag to a suitable/accurate one before letting the suggestion out of queue and also, if there were enough suggestions in Area X, adding a new tag to the dropdown.

Poll #1094 Drop-down List of Areas in Suggestion Box

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (50.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (7.9%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (34.2%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.6%)