Dear all
recently I get the impression that the balance between real cheap crap content and high quality stuff falls more often than not to the wrong side.
Examples that I've seen would be posts like these http://scn.sap.com/people/fang%2Cyuan/content where basically just trivialities or parts of the documentation are send back to the readers.
Looking around I don't see a lot of people "down-rating" low quality content. Usually even the worst stuff gets some 5-star ratings from someone and nearly nobody sets low-star ratings.
In my eyes, it's pretty obvious that just by providing ratings and view counts the quality of the content will not be improved.
The whole gamification effort of the past years only seem to have done something to engage new users more. (not sure about others, but personally I am certainly not chasing the next mission badge when I contribute something).
So the question to me is, if SCN still wants to be a place for high quality content or if broad audience appeal and visitor streams are actually the main goal here.
Thinking about this, it appears to me as if currently the 'social' aspect in SCN is far more relevant than technical know-how exchange.
Being popular gets people to win badges and to become mentors and moderators.
Is this the generally accepted direction for SCN?
Is everybody happy with this approach?
Cheers, Lars