I wish more people would take into the account that the ideas come from users and many people do not understand terminology, of someone in the technical field. the only thing i could relate to is that of ( i think it was) subcategory. The push to close idea's and seemingly censoring people with ideas and post makes it an unwelcoming environment or not giving a turn around time to fix a label made is confusing to understand. i've only been here a few day and feel like a victim of people who moderate the site and edit information on it.
If you feel you can improve on the idea then great were working together but to call something bad and close or try and push someone out is horrible !
I'm not sure I understand this post, but no one is pushing or closing anyone or anything out. No one is being censored.
You've got three moderators (and now one administrator) involved in the discussion you've started, as well as other members. You can't expect that everyone necessarily will agree with you.
Are you saying that when you wrote "category", you didn't mean "sub-forum"? In that case I can agree with you that some sort of categorisation is perhaps possible. We can create a set of prefixes with some general labels (though not as long as the list you suggest above, simply for practical reasons having to do with the user interface - it would just seem way too long).
The advantage of prefixes is that (if everyone uses them, or if they're required to start a thread) members can search the forum based on a specific prefix, and in that way get a list that is pretty well tailored to their interests.
From what's been posted already, though, it seems like the prefixes shouldn't necessarily be based on Apple's own categories, since apps aren't always placed in a sensible category.
What about:
[Games]
[Productivity]
[Lifestyle]
etc? If we for example keep the list to 6 or 7, what would your choices be?