I agree with the sentiment, but I'm not sure it's pratical.
Let's look at Stack Exchange for a minute. They have all sorts of metrics: votes, tags, edits, type of text in a post, etc., but they can't make good questions rise to the top.
And arguably it's easier for SE, because a good question is somewhat more quantifiable.
What is a good article? I think the stuff I write is good, but it gets very little engagement. Maybe I'm writing dreck. It's super subjective.
OK, so, posts that have the title "test" and the body "test" can be slung in the bin, but much beyond that, how can you tell?
Super difficult I know... as it is very subjective. I think some metrics might be possible though - originality (lack of similarity to previous post content/subjects), plagiarism index (have they just copy pasted from reference docs?), subject uniqueness (is this the umpteenth 'let, var, const' post? If so, is it somehow different? Although determining a subject could be tricky), frecency (how much are people looking at it, how old is it), etc.
Right now it largely feels like 'newest or most clickbaity wins' - which isn't ideal.
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I agree with the sentiment, but I'm not sure it's pratical.
Let's look at Stack Exchange for a minute. They have all sorts of metrics: votes, tags, edits, type of text in a post, etc., but they can't make good questions rise to the top.
And arguably it's easier for SE, because a good question is somewhat more quantifiable.
What is a good article? I think the stuff I write is good, but it gets very little engagement. Maybe I'm writing dreck. It's super subjective.
OK, so, posts that have the title "test" and the body "test" can be slung in the bin, but much beyond that, how can you tell?
Super difficult I know... as it is very subjective. I think some metrics might be possible though - originality (lack of similarity to previous post content/subjects), plagiarism index (have they just copy pasted from reference docs?), subject uniqueness (is this the umpteenth 'let, var, const' post? If so, is it somehow different? Although determining a subject could be tricky), frecency (how much are people looking at it, how old is it), etc.
Right now it largely feels like 'newest or most clickbaity wins' - which isn't ideal.