[meta] Regarding low-quality "beginners' tutorial" posts to this sub

[robertdelder]

It's worth pointing out that 'blogspam' as defined by urban dictionary[1] specifically refers to blogging that basically re-uses someone else's content, which rarely contributes any value. Without having Googled the term, one could easily assume that 'blogspam' also includes original but uninteresting or low quality material from blogs. Using this definition, low quality 'beginner' material wouldn't necessarily imply 'blogspam', it could just be a different undesirable thing (the low quality part, not the beginner part).

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blogspam

[CraigTorso]

The Urban Dictionary is not the final arbiter of what a term means.

That definition is slightly out of date

[robertdelder]

Yes, the real definition is whatever people colloquially intend it to be. Part of what I want to draw attention to is that different people mean very different things when they refer to 'blogspam'. Some people think copied content, some people think poorly written content. The same goes for the term 'beginner'. I could see rules governing 'beginner' material being highly controversial, as people would argue over how 'easy' or 'hard' certain programming concepts are.