jeremy:I wanted to follow up to explain the intent of the new feature. It was not, as many posts are focusing, meant as a way for newbies to easily post their waymark even if they didn't know the category exists. The intent was to create a way for people to post locations that don't have categories at all.
I am probably responsible for promoting the intent that uncategorized waymarks would be a way for users who are unfamiliar with the categories available to submit a location, but I should have expanded on that view. I do believe this is a part of it, although Jeremy's clarification makes the most sense today. The followup step to posting waymarks that have no category at all is to identify trends and create categories that fulfill an obvious need.
"Oh look, there are a number of uncategorized Whatsits. I should create a category for those."