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Dan Fockler

I do agree with you that the quality of content on the main feed here is a little disappointing. A lot of repetitive articles.

I think any attempts to manufacture a 'good' feed are bound to end up in tragedy for the whole community. It's your job as the feed consumer to filter out things you aren't interested in, and it's the job of the website developer to give you the tools to do that effectively. To surface good content you either have to have a moderator that removes the bad content, or a curator that picks and presents good content. You can either have a person do that, or have the user to that. Both take work.

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

And, see, that's why I think the authors and readers literally should be a part of that process (ergo my two suggestions.) "Enforced" quality doesn't lend to true diversity or inclusiveness, but a lack of quality isn't much better. If we're all empowered to push quality material to the front, then that quality is according to the community as a whole. As it stands, it's more of a "visibility by default" thing.