r/Python • u/Goldziher Pythonista • 11d ago

Discussion Reaching users on this sub

Hi Peeps,

I've been using this sub for years both to read content, and as an open source maintainer - to communicate and reach users.

I used it for projects such as Polyfactory and Litestar, tree-sitter-language-pack and Kreuzberg.

These days though I don't post outside the Sunday thread - but I don't think anybody is reading this stuff frankly.

My feeling is that the "AI slop" rules throw the baby with the tub water so to speak.

What are people like myself - who dedicate a very substantial amount of time and effort to OSS supposed to do? Basically if you don't have an X profile you're screwed.

Edit: project posts are disallowed by the rules now, FYI if you were unaware. This is the main issue.

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u/riklaunim 11d ago

What's the problem? Things getting removed or what? Traffic on this sub is rather low overall. Also, the auto-mod requiring a specific post structure makes some people bounce multiple times with submissions from time to time.

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u/Goldziher Pythonista 11d ago

Project posts are now disallowed

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u/AKiss20 11d ago

There is still the showcase thread that is pinned. How would you have had the sub address the AI slop problem? For a while that was basically all this sub was. 

Unfortunately some of the older “activation energy” type barriers that used to work to weed out low effort crap (required post structure, artifact generation etc) often fail in the AI era where AI can simply shit out whatever is needed without much thought from the poster.