This article brings up some thoughts that have been nesting in my head for awhile. I joined in 2018 and back then I felt the community was much closer nit and a higher percentage of articles were of quality. This could just be confirmation bias of course. However, I think there are far too many redundant articles.
As far as solutions I have some loose ideas that could be refined. First and foremost do not add any negative user reactions: dislikes, mark as duplicate, etc. Humans have a tendency to focus on negative emotions so adding user moderation via negation focused tools would promote poor behavior. So we have the unicorn reaction, which I assume is for uniqueness, which we could allow users to sort by. Promoting people to mark articles as unique and interesting would be an excellent way user moderation. Another idea is to allow people to tag articles to help increase relevancy.
I like the idea of being able to mark a post unique. Good idea 👍
Tagging articles wouldn't help though. People would just tag every article with the most low-hanging fruit tags ('javascript', 'css', etc...).
An idea I had was being able to custom filter your feed based on presets. So perhaps you have a preset1 for your feed with beginner/javascript an other preset2 with more advanced and a preset3 with only java etc... So basically you get multiple "global" feeds which you can switch between.
This article brings up some thoughts that have been nesting in my head for awhile. I joined in 2018 and back then I felt the community was much closer nit and a higher percentage of articles were of quality. This could just be confirmation bias of course. However, I think there are far too many redundant articles.
As far as solutions I have some loose ideas that could be refined. First and foremost do not add any negative user reactions: dislikes, mark as duplicate, etc. Humans have a tendency to focus on negative emotions so adding user moderation via negation focused tools would promote poor behavior. So we have the unicorn reaction, which I assume is for uniqueness, which we could allow users to sort by. Promoting people to mark articles as unique and interesting would be an excellent way user moderation. Another idea is to allow people to tag articles to help increase relevancy.
Just a bit of food for thought.
I like the idea of being able to mark a post unique. Good idea 👍
Tagging articles wouldn't help though. People would just tag every article with the most low-hanging fruit tags ('javascript', 'css', etc...).
An idea I had was being able to custom filter your feed based on presets. So perhaps you have a preset1 for your feed with beginner/javascript an other preset2 with more advanced and a preset3 with only java etc... So basically you get multiple "global" feeds which you can switch between.
I agree with having presets, that seems like it would definitely help finding articles that are relevant.