In the docs, I made a pull request attempt with some ideas of sufficiently high quality guides. You can see if in the diff of the related commit:
And I tagged the Salt Beginner’s Guide because I agree and it is “obvious”.
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I see a few users confirmed this guide, so I added the tag: Restricting a qube to selected websites
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I think the approach you are suggesting is the wrong way.
Your way leads to someone in power who decides which content gets seen and who is allowed to speak.
It’s a slippery slope where only approved users have their posts seen and the rest end up in low quality or trash.
The right way to do this is to let the users decide which content they want to see.
The users should decide what they consider to be high quality.
And every user has the power to do that by using an AI model to give you a list of new/active/hot high quality topics.
And it’s up to you to tell the AI what is high quality.
You made an example in your post of what you can tell the AI:
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We are just talking about a tag.
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This is actually the case. The users decide which guides they follow and confirm.
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Yeah this whole “high quality guides” thing ended up being kinda useless. As previously, seeing who posted the guide and the topic itself is much more impactful than the tag. It is not intrusive and that is good.
Only on the extreme end of the slippery slope. Right now everybody is allowed to speak, and owners of accounts that are likely to be both legitimate humans and interested in helping are allowed to tag posts as high-quality. Getting member level is not trivial, but definitely not hard for the significant portion of the active community (700 accounts at the moment of writing) - not centralized at all.
Perhaps it should be clarified somewhere - “high quality post” doesn’t mean all other posts are bad, it just means somebody thinks this post is high quality. Other posts might not be tagged yet, or are technically sound but not as good of a read.
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