Board Thread:Setting Things Up/@comment-14004509-20130802182533/@comment-4023106-20130802190734

I initially had Action/Adventure paired together, but I think the deciding factor there is that FanFiction.net has separate Action and Adventure categories, so a person submitting a story from FF.net would instinctively just keep them separate (and most of the stories we've got are indeed from FF.net). Plus, I do think the two genres are different enough that it's worth it to keep them separate. Most Adventure stories are Action-packed, but there are a lot of Action stories that don't have any Adventure.

I also had Mystery and Suspense paired together, actually, and split them off for the same reasons as Action and Adventure. I don't see any similarities between Suspense and Horror that would provide a good reason to combine them.

I'm on the fence about Supernatural. It's a distinct genre, but I don't know of many stories that fit into it... it's sort of like having a Sci-Fi genre. It's definitely distinct, but whether it'd be used much is another question. My reasoning in creating a Supernatural category is mostly because if a story is described as Supernatural and there isn't a Supernatural category, then there isn't really any other genre that it could be categorized as (whereas if a story was described as, say, Hurt/Comfort and we didn't have a category for that, it could most likely be placed in the Angst category instead).