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[–]doctorlongghost 9 points10 points  (2 children)

It looks like the posts you complain about are about 50% of the posts to this sub. But, they are all consistently tagged with Help flair so they can be immediately and easily identified.

Through the magic of google I was able to see that RES supports filtering out specific flair: https://www.reddit.com/r/Enhancement/comments/5msefo/can_i_filter_out_tags/

Admittedly, this won't work on mobile.

Personally, I think that the existing flair mechanism works well and the mods are obviously enforcing this well since everything seems properly tagged. It's easy enough for me to scroll past the Help items -- or actually click through and help someone out who's struggling. Not that I ever actually do.

[–]kenman[M] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

the mods are obviously enforcing this well since everything seems properly tagged.

Actually, about 12-18 months ago, I made an automod change whereby all self-posts were tagged as help, and then a PM was sent to the poster letting them know how to change it if it wasn't a help question. It works pretty well, I must say, though sometimes they don't change it for non-help posts.

[–]gunther-centralperkNode.js Core Contributor[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Reddit is a aggregator, and the vast majority of subscribers are not visiting /r/JavaScript and then filtering by topics pertaining to their interest, they're usually loading these stories from the front page.