Why a "Database - General" category?

After my previous wish list - for more effective forums > during posting new questions can this be done?
This time I want to ask do we really need a "General" category after all these categories, I think this category decreases the efficiency of the posts.
Like "SQL and PL/SQL" or "Installation" there could be a "Database - Backup&Recovery" and "Database - Performance Tuning" categories but not a "General" one please, lots of people are tired of warning others for the appropriate forum category to post.
Best regards.

Interesting question. I do agree with the idea behind the question.
But I do not see it happening - when the typical forum user has a question, they want an answer but they do not want to spend a lot of time looking for the right place to find the answer .... or they would be checking the docs or asking where to find the answer in the docs.
People can not even be bothered to enter the database - general questions in the 'Database; group of forums. Instead we are seeing database questions dumping in the Feedback forum ... probably because it's the first one.
Part of the problem is there are too many sub-categories.
Part of the problem is there are too few people answering in the sub-catgories.
Databases - Installation was a fairly slow forum. I started answering there exclusively for a while. I note that the number of discussions has increased dramatically since I started responding. (I do not take credit for this, but I think perhaps having one more knowledgeable respondent helped.)
We may be dealing with the "MacDonald's syndrome" in which "popular and advertised" attracts attention. After all, the popular forums are advertised (show up more often) on OTN and Google.
So perhaps the answer is simple - start answering in a specific forum and people will be attracted to that forum. Then maybe the 'Database - General' will only attract newbies who get no answers becuase all the seriouus users are elsewhere.
The other side of the same coin isL when you are a DBA, how much time do you really spend with each of the specialty topics? How many real experts do we have in those? (I know only 1 Workflow specialist outside of Oracle for the Workflow forum, only a smnall handful in the Spatial forum, very few who are truly adept at AQ or Streams ...)

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