We love DEV but we're constantly drowned out by clickbait "this is why bootstrap is still relevant" and "10 ways to write a function". Our content generally performs well, but there is a downward trend.
I wrote a post on fetching a twitch status in a tiny lambda function and it's had less than 40 views in a week...
I've just been given the ability to classify low quality posts on DEV, as a moderator, and I'm trying to be objective.
Things I consider low quality:
posts linking to the rest of the article on their own blog
posts acting as a pricing page for courses...
posts with 1 paragraph and a 40 line code block - explain the code!
posts that just sell stuff
posts full of affiliate links
outdated content rehashed for 2020 but without really updating the content (2016 conclusions in 2020)
inaccurate posts
pure clickbait with no insightful information
In 10 reviews since I woke up to this new found POWERRR, 1 had been marked as high quality, 1 flagged to admins, 8 low quality. Low quality posts will be less likely to appear on news feeds.
I feel like more moderation is the answer, and in glad I get to help with that now
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Interesting take.
We love DEV but we're constantly drowned out by clickbait "this is why bootstrap is still relevant" and "10 ways to write a function". Our content generally performs well, but there is a downward trend.
I wrote a post on fetching a twitch status in a tiny lambda function and it's had less than 40 views in a week...
I've just been given the ability to classify low quality posts on DEV, as a moderator, and I'm trying to be objective.
Things I consider low quality:
In 10 reviews since I woke up to this new found POWERRR, 1 had been marked as high quality, 1 flagged to admins, 8 low quality. Low quality posts will be less likely to appear on news feeds.
I feel like more moderation is the answer, and in glad I get to help with that now