On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Michael Snoyman <mich...@snoyman.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > 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. Antione _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
