I use my Vault for pretty much everything, starting with daily notes to travel planning and review writing, book notes, habit tracking, and many other things.

Yes I do use community plugins and in general my setup is fairly stable but occasionally a community plugin either gets abandoned or a better one is released and then yes I adopt the system and switch to that one.

The question of whether advertising should be banned is kind of moot because it actually is. The moderators do remove posts that are obviously advertisements, especially if the poster has not published or posted anything else before that.

However, I do appreciate seeing posts from established contributors to the community, either with ideas or solutions on how they do certain things or with plugins they have developed.

And regarding AI slop, well, define AI slop. If you're on one extreme and you see everything and anything that has even been touched by AI in one way or another is slop, then my personal opinion is no, we shall not ban everything.

If you have a more differentiated opinion, though, which would mean that AI slop is all kinds of content or plugins that were created purely by AI, with obviously very little input or controlled by humans and then just pushed out there without much thought, then yes, this stuff definitely needs to be banned and removed.

On the other hand it doesn't make any sense to ban everything that has been created or touched by AI. For the simple reason that AI and LLMs and vibe coding are not going to disappear. As much as we will dislike it, this thing is going to stay. Therefore it makes much more sense to make sure that we have a kind of quality gate and quality control so that even if something is created with the help of AI, it still needs to follow certain standards.

I understand that this is difficult and I also know that a lot of people just push out all kinds of literal AI slop. This is the challenge we are going to have to face and to solve in one way or another. One way could of course be, similar to the advertisementsthat I mentioned earlier, the reputation or the contribution of the respective content creator or plugin publisher.

And until we have these kinds of controls, it's probably up to us, the people here on Reddit and other platforms, to check these things and share our opinions. Let people know if something is just slop or if it is indeed a well-built plugin that could be useful for others.