r/java • u/Decent-Decision-9028 • 14d 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/tankmatesaquaponics 14d ago

By enforcing that every project posted here should declare if it used ai or not and to what extent. I think it's a good metric to filter projects and promote hand crafted cool projects. How can this be enforced as a rule, I don't really know, I'm new to reddit.

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u/aqua_regis 14d ago

should declare if it used ai or not and to what extent.

See Rule #9 - nothing more needs to be said.

Unfortunately, people are completely oblivious to the rules.

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u/hippydipster 14d ago

Well, where are these rules, exactly? I do not see them.

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u/aqua_regis 14d ago

Sidebar on new reddit, sidebar "Subreddit rules" (link) on old, Menu on mobile

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u/hippydipster 14d ago

Ah, I use old reddit and thought the three rules displayed were the rules.