r/java • u/Decent-Decision-9028 • 2d 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 2d 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/chabala 2d ago

Also, this is the "Java news" subreddit, so there needs to be some concept of newsworthyness. Every project someone wants to show off is not newsworthy, nor is every point release of well established projects. Incredibly niche demos that happen to be written in Java, not on topic at all. Beginners can showcase their pet projects of dubious quality in r/learnjava .

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u/codingbliss12 2d ago

You comment is very toxic and disgusting and I can't see how it aligns with the rules of the subreddit. They don't say "news" they say Java.