Categories
This is a list of al the possible categories for posts. A post can belong to multiple categories. The left panel shows the categories that have been used.
If your submission needs a category or tag that is not here, then send a request to the webmaster for a new category or tag. This can be done with the “Note” section in User Summitted Post. (Note to admin: when a new category is added, be sure to add the category to this page and enable it in the User Post plugin.)
- [Parent category] – usually not checked
- [Subcategory]
- media – type of entry, pick one or more
- announcement – usually used for “events”
- article – post has an article reference
- book
- document
- documentary
- newsfeed
- newsletter – for example, substack
- organization
- podcast – audio or video podcast
- video
- website
- content – check zero or more
- democracy
- dictatorship
- history
- review
- story-current
- story-past
- summary
- townhall
- how-to
- building-coalitions
- decision-process
- finding-common-goals
- finding-common-morals
- finding-common-values
- requiting
- resist-dictatorship
- support-democracy
- talk-to-others
- psychology
- community
- critical-thinking
- cults
- fascism
- mobs
- morals
- mutual-aid
- nonviolent-communication
- personal-level
- societal-level
- values
- participants
- preparation – water, buddies, etc.
- training – non-conflict training
- organizers
- monitors
- permits
- planning
- intervention – see tags
- noncooperation – see tags
- protest – see tags
- rank – see tags
- Uncategorized
Tags
Use ‘-‘ in multi-word tags (no spaces). Most tags should be lower-case. (Exception, authors: First-Last)
Example author tags:
- George-Lakoff
- Jonathan-Haidt
- Marshal-Rosenberg
- Michael-Morris
- Miki-Kashtan
- [etc.]
Tags that are related to some Categories:
- (intervention) – blocade, nonviolent-obstruction, nonviolent-raid, occupation, overloading-systems, shutdown, sit-in
- (noncooperation) – boycott, slow-compliance, strike, walk-out, withdraw, work-to-rule
- (protest) – art, banner, march, music, petition, poster, rally, sign, speech
- (rank) – rank-high, rank-low, rank-medium, rank-dated, rank-archive
Some special tags. These are usually only used to highlight special posts. For example
- event – this tag would be put on posts that will expire after the event date. The “Events” menu will list the active posts. These posts could also be in the categories: event and/or annoncement
- feature – put this tag on posts that you want to “feature”. The “Featured” menu will list these posts.
- news – put this tag on current events or news items. Set the Expire Date to a future date when this will not be important.
- 2026-midterm – posts that are relevent to the 2026 midterm elections.
- flip-a-district – posts that are relevent to supporting candidates in a district.