[Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes

[Micah Freedman (w)]

Isn't the answer to this question, as in many such questions, it depends?

It depends on what type of audience you have -- general or targeted, novice
or expert; on how much you know about the audience; on the nature of your
data -- some data falls nicely into mutually exclusive categories, some
doesn't; on how many items are trying to go into how many categories (i.e.,
to what extent does the cross-post muddy the hierarchy).

.02

-m

> If you put an item in more than one spot for someone who isn't in your
> primary user group, I think you would risk confusing your primary user
> group for the sake of the minority.
> 
> Also, if you abandon the idea of mutually exclusive categories, where do
> you stop the redundancy?
> 
> So what's really necessary, as a couple others suggested, is not to put an
> odd item in more than one spot, but to put it where your particular users
> would expect it.