I might be making too big a deal about this, but I figure I’ll just be open and see what the community thinks.
Is anyone else kinda bothered by these posts? @anthonygore submitted 50+ stories, all of which are from his personal blog, and has never commented. He’s clearly not trying to engage with the community in any way and is exclusively marketing his own content. And most of his stories are flagged as spam, so we don’t even think it’s good content.
Also, he’s marking himself as the author of all of his submissions, which is clearly untrue: if you follow this link, you’ll see it was by “PJ Trainor”.
This pretty low-quality stuff and the scores reflect it, though it’s on-topic. It’s hard to draw a line the behavior, though. We have some excellent authors who really only submit their own posts and interact little with the community, and that’s worth preserving.
If we feel the need to Do Something, maybe the best approach would be to highlight low-interaction/low-scoring self-promoters on a mod dashboard so mods can nudge them by PM. Just looking for the lightest touch, first.
We have some excellent authors who really only submit their own posts and interact little with the community, and that’s worth preserving.
I’m highlighting this. I think any response should lean toward taking a bit of spam or low-quality content to avoid sending those low-interaction, high-quality submitters away.
These kind of things really irk me too, I’m generally very sensitive to people submitting low quality content to lobste.rs for ad revenue or just to get the hits up on their low quality blog or for some kind of self promotion, but I’m generally always reassured by the lobste.rs voting system because it maybe take a week or two but these low quality posters always get recognised and downvoted, at least so far.
There’s also another positive thing which is if I feel like people actually are putting in the effort or wanting to work on their writing I give positive feedback at least once or twice on why the article wasn’t very good. The response to this invariably correlates with if the author is trying to write good stuff or not.
I might be making too big a deal about this, but I figure I’ll just be open and see what the community thinks.
Is anyone else kinda bothered by these posts? @anthonygore submitted 50+ stories, all of which are from his personal blog, and has never commented. He’s clearly not trying to engage with the community in any way and is exclusively marketing his own content. And most of his stories are flagged as spam, so we don’t even think it’s good content.
Also, he’s marking himself as the author of all of his submissions, which is clearly untrue: if you follow this link, you’ll see it was by “PJ Trainor”.
This pretty low-quality stuff and the scores reflect it, though it’s on-topic. It’s hard to draw a line the behavior, though. We have some excellent authors who really only submit their own posts and interact little with the community, and that’s worth preserving.
If we feel the need to Do Something, maybe the best approach would be to highlight low-interaction/low-scoring self-promoters on a mod dashboard so mods can nudge them by PM. Just looking for the lightest touch, first.
I’m highlighting this. I think any response should lean toward taking a bit of spam or low-quality content to avoid sending those low-interaction, high-quality submitters away.
These kind of things really irk me too, I’m generally very sensitive to people submitting low quality content to lobste.rs for ad revenue or just to get the hits up on their low quality blog or for some kind of self promotion, but I’m generally always reassured by the lobste.rs voting system because it maybe take a week or two but these low quality posters always get recognised and downvoted, at least so far.
There’s also another positive thing which is if I feel like people actually are putting in the effort or wanting to work on their writing I give positive feedback at least once or twice on why the article wasn’t very good. The response to this invariably correlates with if the author is trying to write good stuff or not.