A lot of these problems could be solved with a robust team of voluntary moderators, but in my experience of reporting blatantly obvious spam accounts, this site's moderation team is unreliable at best.
A generally available downvote-like action would definitely help, but it wouldn't solve the problem. In a feed-driven system that promotes learning in public, new low quality articles are always going to eventually push old high quality articles out of the top spots. Considering the site encourages new users to post low quality hello world articles as soon as they create an account, I think it is pretty clear the site values content churn over content quality.
Between the endless stream of new coders rewriting the same tired articles, bloggers cross-posting with no stake in the health of this specific community, and companies spamming articles for their SEO value... I hate to say it, but this place is only going to get worse.
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A lot of these problems could be solved with a robust team of voluntary moderators, but in my experience of reporting blatantly obvious spam accounts, this site's moderation team is unreliable at best.
A generally available downvote-like action would definitely help, but it wouldn't solve the problem. In a feed-driven system that promotes learning in public, new low quality articles are always going to eventually push old high quality articles out of the top spots. Considering the site encourages new users to post low quality hello world articles as soon as they create an account, I think it is pretty clear the site values content churn over content quality.
Between the endless stream of new coders rewriting the same tired articles, bloggers cross-posting with no stake in the health of this specific community, and companies spamming articles for their SEO value... I hate to say it, but this place is only going to get worse.