Yep, exactly this! I already have flagging on my list of TODO's which is currently at the top of that list.
Til then I'm the filter.
I'm allowing it to be a little more free right now just to get my foot in the door with data.
Thanks!
I feel the exact same way about those two salaries listed. Thanks for noting that.
When the site gains more traction and authority I'm shooting for more honest than bad. Hopefully, it will be obvious looking at the averages.
Then when I add flagging (probably this weekend) I'm hoping that will really help solidify my opinions for removal (then I'll gain thresholds for grounds on removals). The flagging will either be tally based or vote based. Also I'm considering adding commenting on the flag or just in general commenting on any salary provided. Might even show std, med, etc.
Right now I wouldn't consider any salaries listed there to be reliable, people are probably just testing the site out. My honest opinion would be to load initial data yourself using some legitimate sources (glassdoor could be one, but you can google it) instead of relying completely on crowd to build your database from ground up.
You should show some really good data to begin with.
Its bit buggy, I was able to enter negative salary.
also needs some display consistencies like only USD amounts are displayed with a $ and others with currency ISO3
Ah, that was you:) I just noticed those negative values were being allowed. Thanks for doing that I'll fix that up. I need more validation for sure.
With the $ display I thought since the default on posting is US$ that it would be more obvious to mean USD by default in the display. I can easily change that to be US$ instead or something more uniform. I was also planning on making a converter per currency display to show real market value conversions to any currency.
What currency format would you think people would prefer? I could straight up do symbols and all?
Ya, I definitely considered it, but then also had the thought not to discriminate on gender so wanted a level playing ground. I'm also not sure about adding too many fields and over do it.
If I get enough request for it I'll definitely add this as an optional field.
you probably would want to build the employer list by yourself instead of waiting, that would be much faster to build and cleaner, otherwise you are gonna get a lot of junk and dupes.
Good data is the core value of this site if it's littered with jokes then no one will trust the site & contribute to it.