I’ve already dealt with moderation.
In fact, I might have dealt it too hard a blow because we have gone from intense to none; and that has caused a bit of decline as various people publish very low quality items, some plagiarised, some not in English, and some…. peh.
What I want to mention here is our ‘Front Page’.
When people come on to a site, they look for something to catch their eye. Many sites will put their best stuff on the front page, whether it was written in 2017 or 2015. This is because the Newbie doesn’t know what to expect.
If the first time viewer sees nothing on the front page, well, why stay? There is nothing to read.
The mistake is having the newest items spotlighted. This means a crapwriter can post five items and the crapwriter owns the ‘front page’. As this is a crapwriter writing crap, the viewer takes a glance at the topics and goes away.
What should be done is that the owners find the best articles, the kind of ‘must read’ stuff and spotlight it. Sure ‘latest posts’ can be somewhere else on the front page, but the arrivant should be immediately captured by the interesting articles immediately available.
One writing site, (which went down for particular reasons) used to keep that Front Page so enticing that many writers would admit that as they logged on, they’d be reading other items before they posted. Being on the Front Page was an honour for the writer, but also, the best advertisement possible.
By not doing this streaming, a site can be labeled a ‘Content Farm’, and that causes search engines to ignore it. This does not help the writer, nor the site.
The site I mentioned, (and didn’t name) had a three tier programme.
Those Newbies would be carefully moderated. Those who had proven themselves would be elevated to a higher level where their work would be subjected to a glance or A.I. plagiarism checker, (which was 2nd viewed by a Mod, as when one is quoting a source, i.e. “The Washington Post stated that….(quote)…” the checker might fling up the article as plagiarised when it was only substantiating itself.
Those who had written top level items would be elevated to the top level, and their work often put on the front page, for Mods aren’t there just to slap down, they are to raise up.
These small changes will make Literacybase Better.
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I absolutely agree. Having that enticement to be on the front page, motivates each one to write better so their article will be on the front page.
I used to be on the front page on the famous defunct site. The more that I am there, the more that I am motivated to write substantially and something that many can relate so they can give their insights on the topic therein.
Hopefully, admin will have this implemented too in the near future.
It is time to change the front page. There is nothing there to catch the eye. They can shrink what is there now, move it down, and put the best items on the front page to catch the eye. This would attract more readers, and members.