Question

I wish to allow all application users to add their own categories for their products. The produts may vary A LOT so is not just something that I can predict and insert myself previously.

However, if we allow all users to add their own categories, we may have issues like:

User A inserts a category called: Fruits

User B inserts a category called: Food from trees

(this is a dummy example, but perhaps you get the problem).

Generally speaking, what ways to we have to avoid repetition on our system ?

I’m totally unaware of the ways we may have, so some resources, links, anything, are more then welcome.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Not the most friendly solution, but you could add all new entries to a queue that is moderated by a select number of users. Only after approval, the new entries will appear.