# Should we have a "META" category?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-have-a-meta-category/1253>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [January 3, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-we-have-a-meta-category/1253 "2017-01-03T00:15:04Z")\
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@vchuravy: sorry, but I disagree. You write in the description “to come together and discuss all things Julia”. This is exactly what I understand as _meta_. Why not call the category what it is?

- _Site Feedback_ for me is much more limited in scope. Besides I did not find this term used even once when I looked at the [discourse customer pages](http://www.discourse.org/faq/customers/) I linked above. There was (one time) a _Forum feedback_ category or else _meta_ (or nothing).
- There is a [blog post](https://blog.discourse.org/2013/03/the-importance-of-meta-on-forums/) from Jeff Attwood about the importance of meta. The examples he gives fit the _meta_ categorization but not always the _site-feedback_ categorization (imho)
- (In the ‘official discourse forum’ there is a _meta_ (and _not_ a _site-feedback_) category. A bit confusingly they [mention](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-meta-or-site-feedback/5249) site-feedback though)

In the previous discussion linked by you, @jameson was [critical towards meta](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-categories/85/12), on the other hand @StefanKarpinski was in favour of a [meta category](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-categories/85) and wanted to rename ‘Site Feedback’. There was not really an extended discussion about meta; maybe Jameson would have agreed that _meta_ is commonly used as a ‘meta-category’ for discourse instances? And that _meta-programming_ would work well? I don’t know.

Would a rename be worth the trouble? If more people are in favour of _meta_ I do think, yes. No need to not be (or become) mainstream here.

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