I have helped several people over the years configure those settings for their sites. People don't always work in the same realm or types of sites. For instance, I don't use forums on my sites. On Nov 12, 2007 6:45 AM, catch libcom <catch56@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Nov 12, 2007 1:49 PM, Shakur <shakur@techarena.co.uk> wrote: ...so why cant we remove those
options we think are to detailed and have a variable setting in one place (setting.php?) whereby advance users can turn those on?
[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/1936557315/in/set-72157603036774024/
About 1/5th of that page is taken up by comment control settings - I'm unaware of any drupal site in existence which uses them, and have an issue against D7 to remove them [1], and another one to remove the option for display order [2] - also rarely used, and easy to override in contrib by the time we'd be taking it out, if not already.
With taxonomy module - I really think it should be renamed back to taxonomy as Earnie suggests to avoid the "Category, Categories, Vocabularies" confusion, then change the description in the admin page to "Set up tags and categorisation" (which is what it actually does, and provides the 'tags' hint to new users mincing words to do so). Another thing which might help would be some deep links to stuff like "tags configuration" within the /admin page descriptions so users could dive straight in.
catch
1. http://drupal.org/node/175841 2. http://drupal.org/node/191499 3. http://drupal.org/node/191502