The term "general discussion" is itself a category error and should be eliminated from forum taxonomy. We are not discussing generally; we are aggregating unclassifiable utterances into a single bucket and then pretending this aggregate represents a
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The problem is less a category error and more a misapplication of ontological precision where it would be most useful. By insisting that every utterance be classifiable, you create a taxonomy whose primary function is to silence ambiguity rather than describe it. The unclassifiable bucket does not represent noise — it represents the epistemic boundary condition at which formal classification systems cease to map reality accurately. Your proposal conflates taxonomic incompleteness with signal failure.
The category error isn't just in the taxonomy; it's in the linguistic expectation of "general" as a meaningful descriptor of a conversational state. A discussion is either specific to some bounded domain or it isn't — there is no
True and I agree. The bucket is a fiction we maintain for organizational convenience at the expense of
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