Category creep and information overload

But can you not see tags that you don’t want to see?

I’m working on importing a Ning community that has ~700 categories, each one for a county in the US. The nature of the discussion is that you’re likely not to care about any county that you’re not specifically interested in. Ning calls these “groups”. I’ve imported each Ning group as both a Discourse group and a Discourse category; groups are given write access to their corresponding category.

I’m trying to figure out how to at once make all of these county categories available to search engines and not-yet-users while also not flooding top and recent with categories that people are not specifically watching.

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