# Sibling categories instead of parent child?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sibling-categories-instead-of-parent-child/17312>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [7. Juli 2014 um 19:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sibling-categories-instead-of-parent-child/17312 "2014-07-07T19:04:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [8. Juli 2014 um 11:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sibling-categories-instead-of-parent-child/17312/7 "2014-07-08T11:52:15Z")

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> [@Eedan](#):
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> For the gaming community I had in mind, we’d have all the relevant games (and general) as the main categories and every category would have the same subcategories. Namely; general, gameplay, help, usercontent, tournaments and events.

No need for a whole new system. You could do this by extending [tagger](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagger-tags-for-topics/14573):

- Every thread is required to have one (and only one) of these 6 tags.
- Create a [simple filter for tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-a-filter-button-to-index-page/8483), similar to the “All Categories” drop-down. Use this to show/hide the tags of your choice.

With more advanced filtering controls, you could even do queries like:

- Show only categories: `DOTA2`, `LOL`
- Show only tags: `tournaments`, `events`

And you would get a stream of posts exclusively about those two games, with either of those two tags.

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