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. Michael _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
