Self-Assigned roles

[JayFoxRox]

This issue is about the XboxDev Discord

I wonder if the Discord server should have roles for expertise.. like GPU, APU, PCB, Python, QEMU, .. so we can always highlight those people who are important (as all members of a role can be highlighted using @role).

Ideally people could add themselves to these list using a bot or something - so you could basically subscripe to topics.

Just so if something important happens, they get a highlight, such as with the logo decision - we could have said: "new XQEMU logo in the works, please vote @xqemu", so even people who don't always read #xqemu, see those important issues.

We could also have a role for people interested in helping with beginner tasks (for all projects currently listed on XboxDev discord; because beginners often suck at finding them on github on their own).
So whenever a new task is available, we could highlight them with @easy.
Also when people ask "what can I work on?!" we'd just direct them to search for @easy in the Discord search - and they'd find all past tasks immediately (or the bot could list them, so IRC bridgers can also see them).

I thought of this when I needed people with python expertise because I know a handful of people with python skills but I'm unable to highlight them easily.

Thoughts?

[DarkGabbz]

If I had the permission to do so I would add Nadeko Bot which makes managing Self-Assigned roles quick and easy. Should we group the "GPU, APU, PCB, Python, QEMU, .. " roles in a category or just leave the big list like now?

[JayFoxRox]

Before deciding anything (especially if it's such low-priority), I'd like get more input from other community members and @mborgerson who is the server owner (CC @XboxDev)

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DarkGabbz provided the following sample via Discord when I asked which categories he meant:

I strongly suggest to not add categories in the user-list for the self assigned roles:

• The roles would be primarily meant to highlight people, not so much for showing-off.
• If we have a lot of roles, the userlist would probably get too complicated.
• The roles are intended so you don't have to hand-pick a specific user; so seperating users into groups in the user list would actually be contradictory (as it singles-out specific users who are online).

[Ernegien]

Here's how I'd like to see them primarily used; bold text are just logical categories and not intended to be roles. I agree with JayFoxRox on there not being any special category attribution (except for mods perhaps so randoms know who to tag in case users/content needs quick removal) on the sidebar, particularly as most of these are many-to-many relationships.

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