It feels like there is a lot of AI generated content on dev.to. And the current way to prevent my feed to get cluttered by AI post that don't inter...
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What would be better would be an upvote/downvote system like reddit's, eventually users with every post being downvoted just wouldn't show up in the feeds anymore.
But you know, that's if the people in charge here actually want to do something about AI posts.... which i don't think they do. [They may feel free to prove me wrong any time now]
Volunteer moderators currently have three additional moderation buttons: mark as high quality, mark as low quality, and flag for review by professional moderators.
Sometimes I'm undecided, especially those listicles that "every developer must know" are often a mix of advertising and information and they tend to be quite popular. But I downvote and flag what I am sure is spam or low-value AI slop.
here's a list of posts for you to devalue then i guess.
dev.to/member_d50fddd8
also when mods mark down a post, does it in any way affect future posts by the same author? if not, your work is kinda pointless unless you can watch every one of those accounts and flag all their posts... heh
I don't think that is a good solution because then they have to be aware of bots that up or down vote posts.
Also there are people who use AI to improve their writing style, or they are not confident enough writing in English. I don't think those people should be punished for using AI.
At the moment the filtering is in the hands of the individual users. And I think it should stay that way.
Except we are bombarded with advertising posts and spam AI "just for clicks/views" posts. So whatever they are doing is currently insufficient. One way to do this is to verify users by email, and use some tools to check user behavior to identify bots. That's a lot less work and simpler to manage, so an up/down vote system could work well. Like any other method, there will be some effort at first to make the change, but longterm it's far less work than trying to manually filter hundreds if not thousands of posts a day.
I understand your frustration.
I wasn't sure so I logged off and the only way to log in is by the usual suspects, email or social networks. So they already have that measurement in place.
What is the behaviour of a bot? Like I mentioned before people also use AI in their posts. Are we going to exclude them too?
People are promoting their stuff here, it can look spammy but I think it should be allowed.
The idea of the filtering comes from email inbox filtering. I think it works great there, so it could work on a website too.
We are doing a lot to try and combat this type of low-quality content. Word filtering is an option — but AI-generated spam can be pretty smart about this sort of stuff.
I think we can probably add word filtering, but I don't think it's the absolute solution we need.
I agree it is not an absolute solution, but what is in the battle with spam content.
That's true. We're actively working on lots of stuff like this, so hang tight. We'll see if we can add this too.
Dude, yes. I could really use this too, feed just gets way too cluttered lately