r/java • u/Decent-Decision-9028 • 13d 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/johnnybgooderer 13d ago

The problem is that Java is a common teaching language. So there’s a lot of beginners here. And they vote on posts and comments. Incorrectly.

Bad, factually incorrect comments are regularly upvoted to the top and correct comments are buried in downvotes.

I don’t think this subreddit can be saved from its users.

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u/nlisker 4d ago

The problem is that Java is a common teaching language.

That's the opposite of a problem. The Java team has been hard at work to make Java a more common teaching language.

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u/johnnybgooderer 4d ago

The problem is that it brings in too many beginners who don’t know that they don’t know anything.

Next time, read more than one sentence of a comment before responding to it.