On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:50:32 +0200, Michael Snoyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to everyone for not getting back so quickly, I kept getting > errors from postfix when I tried sending mail to the cafe. Hopefully > this one will go through. As I see it, two open issues are "flagging" > and "real Haskellers". > > Flagging: this was simply a mistake in terminology on my part. I've > replaced it with "Report this user." It should be used for either > inappropriate content, spam, or someone who's just clearly not part of > the community (eg, "Lol, I don't know Haskell, I had Cocoa Puffs for > breakfast"). I'm purposely being vague about this; if a user *thinks* > there's a problem, it shouldn't take an admin more than a few seconds > to investigate it. > > Now the more important question about real Haskellers: I think I > mentioned before implementing the feature that I was a little bit > nervous about doing so. The main reason I went ahead and did it anyway > was we were getting some... strange gravatars showing up on the > homepage. This problem was solved automatically when I added sorting > by years of experience (no one can object to Simon PJ and Lennart > being on the homepage of course), but the problem with that system is > *anyone* can just set their start year to 1990 and get homepage status > until an admin blocks him/her. > > So for the moment, real Haskeller is a minimal whitelisting system, > simply intended to prevent people from gaming the system. I've > probably chosen bad terminology, and by not explaining this upset a > lot of people, my apologies. The point here is not to make the real > Haskeller status exclusive, but just to give an extra level of > protection. If people really think this is a bad idea, we can take it > out. However, keep in mind that the community already seems to favor > whitelists (the wiki requires admin intervention for an account, same > on HackageDB).
I think that "Verified accounts" sounds more appropriate than "Real Haskellers", then. Regards, -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
