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DCRavenX





PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:50 pm Reply with quote
could the encyclopedia be set up to seperate titles by genre as well as alphabetically for people who are trying to decide what title to check out next?

For example if someone wanted to check out a comedy title they could find a listing of comedy titles etc.

This was just an idia that hit me so I decided to throw it out there and see what happens

Thank you
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 4:11 pm Reply with quote
That's actually a pretty good idea, but i'm not so sure how useful it would be, you'd still get a few hundred results returned. Still, I'm sure there are ways to refine it.

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ZahmiraV



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:50 am Reply with quote
Also, most titles can fall into more than one category. This could help to refine the search.
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molloaggie



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:58 pm Reply with quote
If you make a listing by genre, all the titles that are in the top 50 will be split up. They will still in the same order. You'll only add new titles at the bottom of the list.

For example, if you split the top 50 list into shonen and shojo, (assuming there are 25 of each) you'll get those 25 titles listed in the same order, and then add 25 new titles that haven't qualified for the top 50 already. So you won't get as much more information than you already knew.

It might be more worthwhile to make the titles more searchable by category. Instead of just having an alphabetical listing for all titles, other alphabetical listings for mecha, magical girl, comedy, shonen, and shoujo might be more helpful.
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