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I Just Joined the DEV Team!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) on May 20, 2020

Hello, world! I'm thrilled to share that I just joined the DEV team as the new Content Manager. I'm excited to make engaging with this inspiring co...
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Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza

Amazing news and huge congrats to you!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thank you so much, Gwyneth 😊

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Katie Nelson

Hi Gracie, I'm Katie, the #welcome moderator here on DEV.

I want to congratulate you on your new role and officially 😊 #welcome you to the DEV community.

You'll find it's really awesome here with some amazingly talented people both on the contributing side and, all those on the support side whose presence you feel their as they provide behind the scene updates to keep the site running smoothly.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thank you, Katie!

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Zohar Peled

Congrats!
Funny, I've looked in your profile and saw this - "In my spare time, I fancy myself an amateur sleuth."
which automatically got me thinking of an amateur sloth, which got me thinking of Sid the sloth, which made me smile.
Also, I Learned a new word today (sleuth), so thanks for that!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Haha! The fact is, I'm an EXPERT sloth!

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Eleftheria Batsou

Congratulations girl, this is amazing!!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks a million 💛

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Nick Taylor

Welcome to the DEV team @graciegregory !

Whale hello there!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Tysm!! 🐋

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Tharun Shiv

Congratulations..! And All the very Best! 🎉

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

🕺

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Peter Kim Frank

Welcome to the team! 🎉

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks, Peter!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Welcome welcome :D Stoked to have you!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Stoked to be here!!

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Thomas Bnt

Congrats!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks!

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Mohamed Taha

and me too

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

👋

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Josh Puetz

Welcome to the team Gracie!!!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thank you, Josh!!

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Tej-Singh-Rana

Congratulations Gracie for a Dev journey. :)

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks!!

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Waylon Walker

Warm welcome! Rock those twitter accounts

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rhymes

Welcome to the team Gracie!

Devs shows is pretty popular at DEV but I have yet to start watching it myself. I'll catch up 😂

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks!! Proceed at your own risk. It's good but it's grim!

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David Pereira

Welcome to the coolest DEV community Gracie 😃.
I've heard good things about that show Devs, so I also gotta watch it 😅

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thank you, David! I was relieved to see that Nick Offerman's scary character has no hand in the real life DEV Community 😅

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Fernando

It's great to have you on the team, Gracie. Welcome! 🎉

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

🙌

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Carlos Roso

Welcome!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks a bunch, Carlos!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Woohooo! Glad you're here :D

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Visakh Vijayan

Welcome

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks!

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Mohammed Asker

Congrats on your new role, Gracie! 🎉 I'm excited to see what cool stuffs you'll bring to the community!

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Lisa Sy (she/her)

Welcome Gracie,

We're so thrilled you're joining us!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

So happy to be here 🤗

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Michael Tharrington

It's so awesome to have you on the team, Gracie! I'm looking forward to working with you closely on DEV content and community initiatives. Let's do this! 🙌

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thanks, Michael!! I'm super excited to work together also 🎉 This feels like a pretty great place to be ✨

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Joel Olawanle

Congratulations!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Thank you, Olawanle!

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Ryan Smith

Congrats, looking forward to new content!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Woot! Thanks for the welcome, Ryan :)

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Bernard Baker

Congratulations 🤸.

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Sebastien Barre

Gracie, welcome.

Could you elaborate on the role of content managers on Dev.to?

I'm curious because duplicate contents and astroturfing has really been rampant lately. This particularly happens when a new, shiny object pops up on the horizon, and we see a burst of posts that are essentially a rewording of the product/software/library announcement, to capitalize on the views/likes/hearts.

This dilutes the overall quality of Dev.to in my opinion.

This has become particularly egregious as Deno 1.0 was announced; this post from today is pretty much an ad, poorly disguised as informational content, a content that has already been seen a dozen of times on Dev.to. I recall Stack Overflow and other communities (Hacker News) allow flagging of duplicate or low quality contents for example. Is this something being discussed internally with other content managers?

Thank you

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Peter Kim Frank

Hey Sebastien, I'm one of the DEV co-founders and figured I'd pop in as I have a bit more of the historical context here.

The first thing to understand is that DEV is an open platform and we don't have direct editorial input into what individual members decide to publish. That said, we do our best to address low-quality content that violates the Content Policy outlined in our Terms of Service (#11).

Michael (@michaeltharrington ) is our Community Manager, and he moderates that posts on the platform along with plenty of support from a growing group of amazing community moderators. When you see problematic content, you can help us out by emailing yo@dev.to.

Gracie's addition to the team will help us continue improving in this regard. She'll be the person primarily managing our content distribution efforts, which plays an important role in highlighting the best posts that are being shared on DEV.

It's an ongoing and evolving effort to curtail low-quality content, highlight the best posts, all while keeping the platform open and welcoming to new and established authors alike. Please feel free to message me via DEV Connect if you'd like to continue sharing your ideas on this topic!

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Put on hold as: Unclear what you're asking.

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Sebastien Barre

Sentence #2. I was asking about the role of content managers on Dev.to, and provided some examples with respect to their possible purview. This was answered and clarified by Peter already.