So that we can get to know each other better and know which kind of cool people from which cool projects hang around here, I set a title for the existing users in the format of:
[Role] at [open source project]
For some I didn’t know the open source project, and some don’t have one. But it would be cool to have a very concise title in that format for everyone.
Let me know if anything should be changed. I took the info from the Introduction topic or from websites/Twitter/Github if I could find it. As far as I can see, only admins can change that title.
Any user can change their title from their Preferences setting to any that are availble to choose from.
If there are none available to choose from the select will show only
The only way to have this title changed to custom text is for Staff to do it.
If you want to have a user filled title field, that’s one thing custom user fields can be used for. Such fields can be displayed on user cards and profile pages.
That said, I don’t see anything about title at all under my user preferences either here or on the meta.discourse site. I hope this helps.
@erlend_sh@blake.erickson as someone who is new to Discourse, I’m a bit surprised that users can’t simply set their own titles. I have to admit that I feel somewhat disempowered. I’m at the whim of the admins to put a description next to my name at Open Source Design and it’s an uncomfortable feeling.
I find it useful to see who does what. But , if I understand it right,
We would need to maintain titles manually
Some people may not want to be seen as the “Y person from project X”. Maybe they are researcher in their Job, but want to help along on graphic design here.
I think the usefulness and getting to know others way outweighs the work of manual addition. I just spent a few minutes adding the current titles and am happy to continue it.
And in your example the title could then just say “Graphic designer”. I really don’t think it’s a big issue.
The point of all this is to know what kind of skillsets and which open source projects we have represented here.
My main concern is that we add some information that user might or might not like to expose. If they do not want it to be exposed (or just wonder), they need to find out where it comes from and this is rather opaque.
I, too, find the titles very useful – my thanks for caring for such information. But that we just add them feels uncanny.
(Maybe we should ask some other people here, since it hinges on social norms/weight-of-concerns)
That’s why, as said above, I simply copied what people introduced themselves with, or what they use on their public website / Github / Twitter profile already. There is no new or private information.
Where it comes from, that’s what this thread is for to inform people.
Sure. It was not my intent to say that we hack information from somewhere and I also find it potentially useful. I just assumed that how people represent themselves can be a sensitive issue. (In case we would not extract Project/Employer+Role manually, we could still have the option to let them choose the role manually from a list.) But as I said, lets ask some others: @simonv3@bnvk@elioqoshi – what is your view on that?
Yeah, I did read that, and while I have full faith in @jan and think he’s willing to do this, I just don’t like this in general. But then, it’s not like we have any other option.
At this point there was more time spent talking about it here than it took me to actually simply do it. So I have no concerns that it’s a bottleneck or not doable.
Didn’t find this option and the role setting might be restricted to admins when I read @pdurbin’s comment. So please change my title to “UX mentor @ LibreOffice” (or whatever the default is for @). TIA!
@grahamperrin badges though are not very good for information about that person. The titles are not about what the people make in regards to this forum, but what they do in regards to open source (and maybe design).
Also, this is about the titles being shown next to the name without hovering their name or visiting their profile.
Hence it would also be cool if you can give yourself an explanatory title in that manner.
(And yeah, I disabled badges because they are pretty annoying and distract people from the actual happenings in the forum. You get notifications for any little thing and it drowns out the really important info like @-mentions or private messages. That’s why I think they should also be disabled again.)
