This hit the spot. How about semi-adopting Stackoverflow's suggestion mechanism?
For example- blogger wants to create a post about "How to use Docker", and while typing the title, DEV.to can suggest:
"There are 237648327642876 posts about how to get started with Docker, are you sure you want to add another one?"
This will not stop them from writing the articles. That never worked on Stack Overflow. I close a lot of duplicates each day on Stack Overflow and in 70% of the cases the duplicate I use is the first one suggested by the site when writing the title.
This hit the spot. How about semi-adopting Stackoverflow's suggestion mechanism?
For example- blogger wants to create a post about "How to use Docker", and while typing the title, DEV.to can suggest:
"There are 237648327642876 posts about how to get started with Docker, are you sure you want to add another one?"
@ben - what do you think? :)
This will not stop them from writing the articles. That never worked on Stack Overflow. I close a lot of duplicates each day on Stack Overflow and in 70% of the cases the duplicate I use is the first one suggested by the site when writing the title.
Super sad, that usually what stops me from asking a question in SO :/
Even if it doesn't stop low-quality posts, this would help serious writers produce better content.