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Discussion on: What keeps ya coming back to DEV?

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decker • Edited

The hope that the quality of the posts increases in time.
But I am nearly hopeless.

Create an extra space for those "writers" who thinks "Hello World" is the new shit on the block. But it seems that this problem arises also in medium and hashnode. The new credo seems to be: I write so I am.

I have been gone three times because of this. Hopefully there will be another site or at least an area free of those post and someone who cares about the stuff written here.

It is a little bit like TikTok for developers. Look and see me, how great I am.

In these times every one is fabulous, but this is simply not true and we should not write about stuff only for ourselves - look I have written a post.

Think first, write second.

Write for the reader, not for the writer.

I have nothing against post from beginners, but please spend more than a minute to write a post.

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Paweł Świątkowski • Edited

From observations here and on Hashnode I get that nowadays it's part of a bootcamp process to start blogging and document the progress. Which is good for learners but, as you pointed out, not so much for a community. I wonder what would be a good solution for that, because detecting such posts and shadowbanning them seems too hostile.

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decker

Yes thats true, so we should have an area for that: Bootcamp Writing.
And everything that seems to be something like that is moved there.

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decker

Maybe we need a pay per post for posts that wants to get into the non Bootcamp Writing.
And you get money back, if your post is voted up to ....

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Wade Zimmerman

That's a bit extreme but some sort of screening mechanism could help. Perhaps readers could opt in to some sort of program to help new writers.