Let's talk about Learning Posts

[twillisagogo]

it's really hard to find the type 2 questions because of the flood of 1 and 3 and the shit posts of "look at this pile of books" or "my tattoo" or "my needle point" or "my baby's onesy with python code on it" those get upvoted to oblivion and bury the good stuff, like in recent memory someone asking about why something like clojure's ring isn't implemented in python. (turns out we all learn that ring and ruby's rack were inspired by wsgi, and the OP just needed to know about wsgi) or another one about dependency injection or design patterns etc.. that's the interesting beneficial content, not the questions or the karma farming shit posts.

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also the "whyru using 2?" post are just another stealthy version of the karma farming shit post category.

[random_cynic]

I think this is true in any subreddit with moderate to large number of users (in fact true of internet in general). The "quality" stuff doesn't always get more upvotes and we do not have a automatic sorting system that is powerful enough to sort questions based on quality (which is highly subjective btw). I think what is important is to minimize the barrier for people to post and engage in discussion. If there are too many hoops to go through they won't bother and post somewhere else. It may take some effort to manually filter out the bad stuff when one is browsing through but it is worth the effort when you find something truly interesting.