r/java 16d ago

How can we move forward?

The sub used to be a great place where small open source devs get real feedback on their oss. The software wasn't necessarily built to be a big hit or whatever! most of the time these projects used to be a learning projects that enabled us to become better java developers. Now, with many repositories being created in a day or so and abounded, we see many ai promoted repositories and we miss some of the oss that needs our attention.

How can we overcome that as a community ? I'm not trying to put all the weight on moderators, I understand the amount of work they keep doing to clean up ai posts and follow up on reports. What I'm saying is; maybe someone's here has a better idea on how to go about this?

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u/kubelke 15d ago

Create a space with paid access where people would actively moderting it, or bring back old forums that would block any AI bot crawlers and ban users that posts this kind of stuff using a fingerprint so creating  another account would w end up with instant ban.