# Reconsider the "Users" category?

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/reconsider-the-users-category/3365>\
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**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/reconsider-the-users-category/3365 "2020-02-20T21:44:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/reconsider-the-users-category/3365/95 "2022-07-27T01:40:36Z")

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On a PEP/Ideas [**topic that seems to be looking for a category home**](https://discuss.python.org/t/reconsider-suggestions-against-tabs/17348/16), I asked about adding the ‘General Discussion’ category discussed here and @brettcannon replied:

> I personally wasn’t planning on it as it feels like it would overlap too much with Ideas and be too hard to explain the differences.

It looked like @Quercus had summarized the settled questions in a fairly recent post:

> [@Quercus](#):
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> There appears to be a consensus among us regarding the following action items:
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> - Change the name of the **Users** category to **Python Help**.
> - Create a **General Discussion** category. Place this right after the **Python Help** category.
> - Change the name of the **Python Software Foundation** category to **PSF**.

Since the **Ideas** category is for language changes (“change something in Python”), the difference between that and **General Discussion** should be pretty clear.

I think the safe bet is that **Ideas** will get diluted/polluted with general discussion topics if no separate category is provided.

Was this point not as much of a consensus as it appeared to be? Is this a case of the ‘Chairman’ voting rather than just being the Chairman? (The Chair generally refrains from voting due to the extra influence they hold, and votes only when they would break a tie.)

From the discussion here, it looks like a **General Discussions** category is needed and valuable. Is this still the case?

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