On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Daniel Peebles <pumpkin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > Just so everyone knows what it means to be an "admin": admin powers > are very limited, it's basically a glorified moderator. That means > that admins don't have the power to change your profile or anything > like that. Except for me, what with having database write permissions, > but that's kind of unavoidable ;). > > So in general, I think I'm going to have to take out all of those > overly-general and overly-specific ones, and clarify some of the > others. Such as explaining what tool building is (thanks, Chris!). > > Michael > > PS: I can't believe no one added a "Write a monad tutorial" skill. > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
