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Discussion on: Tip: Set your "experience level" for a more tailored feed.

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Ben Halpern

It's been live for a little while but we dragged our feet on closing the loop on the effectiveness of the feature. There's still work to be done in that regard.

To be clear: this is for your consumption preferences. It will not imply the level you write for. A more experienced developer might write stuff for newbies, and a newbie might write highly-researched content that is best suited for experienced developers.

(I edited the post to add that in).

But it actually already works more like how you're describing it. Site mods can explicitly vote on experience level and we also calculate implicit votes based on what people are adding to their reading list. All in all it's a wisdom-of-the-crowds approach to hopefully match folks with the most relevant content.

We're up to over 2,000 authentic published posts per week from the community but we're still playing catchup in terms of letting folks find the posts that are must useful and engaging to them.