On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Antoine Latter <aslat...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe