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Why we need an independent party to measure article readability

In the age of AI; the "dead internet theory" is REAL, it is no longer a theory;

For the years to come, people would be still relying on serious content from here and there.

The problem we need to tackle here and now, and with all courage is that a lot (most ?) of authors are losing their times writing valuable articles if they don't have a space in New York Times or so... Same goes on the other hand, these articles are NOT READ at all, probably by bots ?

This dramatic loss of human efforts should not go to un-tackled.

An independent organism that measure article readability (I don't know how, assuming the website insights are reliably, go checking proxies like Cloudflare ? ask for a transparent Google analytics dashboard from the site provider ?, etc etc this is the second problem for people who are willing to tackle this issue).

For the site provider to keep authors writing while these articles are under water, You say, it's their responsibility, well probably, but in many cases, authors do not know they are having no traction... while still hanging on by a thread.

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