Accessibility Specialist. I focus on ensuring content created, events held and company assets are as accessible as possible, for as many people as possible.
I certainly agree that it would be great to promote higher quality articles, but the “how” is the bit that is very difficult without manual intervention.
Maybe some clever machine learning / sentiment analysis / post analysis could do this in the near future but as with anything in that sphere, the second you give a black box a set of rules it becomes difficult to control (look at Google, it doesn’t work well anymore for complex queries as it has self optimised for the 90% and the engagement vs quality problem DEV has is similar, hell we could write a whole thesis on trying to solve it!)
The team at DEV are running experiments to try and fix the problem, but it is a very tough problem to crack, so that is why I suggest “playing the game” a little!
Right, but the question is if they even WANT to change it - many people simply like the listicles and the other dumbed down content. But, I do respect the people at dev.to, and I do believe they do want to promote better content more - I think they also see that if it's all getting too much dumbed down, then part of the audience will jump ship or simply check out (engage less).
And yeah I understand you, sometimes you have to be practical and play "their" game ... if you can't beat them then join them, lol.
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I certainly agree that it would be great to promote higher quality articles, but the “how” is the bit that is very difficult without manual intervention.
Maybe some clever machine learning / sentiment analysis / post analysis could do this in the near future but as with anything in that sphere, the second you give a black box a set of rules it becomes difficult to control (look at Google, it doesn’t work well anymore for complex queries as it has self optimised for the 90% and the engagement vs quality problem DEV has is similar, hell we could write a whole thesis on trying to solve it!)
The team at DEV are running experiments to try and fix the problem, but it is a very tough problem to crack, so that is why I suggest “playing the game” a little!
Right, but the question is if they even WANT to change it - many people simply like the listicles and the other dumbed down content. But, I do respect the people at dev.to, and I do believe they do want to promote better content more - I think they also see that if it's all getting too much dumbed down, then part of the audience will jump ship or simply check out (engage less).
And yeah I understand you, sometimes you have to be practical and play "their" game ... if you can't beat them then join them, lol.