Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Antoine Latter wrote:

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:

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Hi all, Might it be worthwhile to take the elected "superusers" on haskellers.com and let them police the skills list? It's become rather messy, with overly broad terms like "Mathematics" in it, as well as overly specific ones like "Other languages I know: C# .NET, XSLT, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, SQL, CSS, C, C++, Java, HTML, Visual Basic Script, Pascal, Rexx, Basic and assembler".

I concur that we need to switch the skills list to moderated. My plan is to lock out the ability to add skills by non-admins, then do a manual cleanup myself. After that, if you want a skill added to the list, you'll need to ask an admin to do it (there will be an automated request form, just like with verified user status).

Why don't you simply display only the most-used skills in the overview or listing of all skills?

That way it isn't a manual process.

I already do, but look at how many people have selected "tool building" and "Mathematics" (myself included). Once the skill is in the list, people *will* choose it so they don't look like they don't know how to do something.

Maybe you could not offer suggestions on the "Edit your profile page"? Then the list of frequent tags would only show up on a search or drill-down page.

I think that'll just make the problem worse: one person will type "Template Haskell", another "Template haskell" someone else "Metaprogramming via TH", and we'll have a true mess on our hands. Michael