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This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on another answer. I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on. As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#5: Post edited by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2021-03-29T02:27:36Z (over 3 years ago)
  • This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on [another answer](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810#answer-278987). I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.
  • As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that. On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.
  • I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here. Specifically:
  • - Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**. (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**. (Update: there are eight of these. We'll keep those; the community here obviously values them and they're a drop in the bucket.)
  • This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks. After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass. And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question. Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else. These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.
  • ----
  • **Update 2021-02-05:** We have just completed the first phase of deletions. Specifically, we deleted 16,644 *answers* that were imported, were not claimed, were not edited, and had no upvotes. This represents approximately half the answers. In a later pass we will look at imported *questions*; the queries would have been too complicated to do these together.
  • This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on [another answer](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810#answer-278987). I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.
  • As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that. On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.
  • I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here. Specifically:
  • - Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**. (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**. (Update: there are eight of these. We'll keep those; the community here obviously values them and they're a drop in the bucket.)
  • This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks. After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass. And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question. Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else. These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.
  • ----
  • **Update 2021-02-05:** We have just completed the first phase of deletions. Specifically, we deleted 16,644 *answers* that were imported, were not claimed, were not edited, and had no upvotes. This represents approximately half the answers. In a later pass we will look at imported *questions*; the queries would have been too complicated to do these together.
  • **Update 2021-03-29:** We have additionally deleted 2228 questions that were imported, unclaimed, unvoted, and had no claimed or native answers.
#4: Post edited by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2021-02-07T18:13:48Z (over 3 years ago)
  • This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on [another answer](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810#answer-278987). I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.
  • As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that. On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.
  • I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here. Specifically:
  • - Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**. (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**. (Update: there are eight of these. We'll keep those; the community here obviously values them and they're a drop in the bucket.)
  • This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks. After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass. And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question. Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else. These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.
  • ----
  • **Update 2021-02-05:** We have just completed the first phase of deletions. Specifically, we deleted 16,644 *answers* that were imported, were not claimed, were not edited, and had no upvotes. This represents approximately half the posts. In a later pass we will look at imported *questions*; the queries would have been too complicated to do these together.
  • This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on [another answer](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810#answer-278987). I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.
  • As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that. On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.
  • I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here. Specifically:
  • - Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**. (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**. (Update: there are eight of these. We'll keep those; the community here obviously values them and they're a drop in the bucket.)
  • This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks. After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass. And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question. Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else. These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.
  • ----
  • **Update 2021-02-05:** We have just completed the first phase of deletions. Specifically, we deleted 16,644 *answers* that were imported, were not claimed, were not edited, and had no upvotes. This represents approximately half the answers. In a later pass we will look at imported *questions*; the queries would have been too complicated to do these together.
#3: Post edited by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2021-02-05T20:39:20Z (over 3 years ago)
  • This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on [another answer](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810#answer-278987). I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.
  • As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that. On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.
  • I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here. Specifically:
  • - Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**. (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**.
  • This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks. After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass. And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question. Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else. These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.
  • This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on [another answer](https://writing.codidact.com/questions/278810#answer-278987). I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.
  • As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that. On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.
  • I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here. Specifically:
  • - Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**. (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)
  • - Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**. (Update: there are eight of these. We'll keep those; the community here obviously values them and they're a drop in the bucket.)
  • This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks. After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass. And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question. Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else. These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.
  • ----
  • **Update 2021-02-05:** We have just completed the first phase of deletions. Specifically, we deleted 16,644 *answers* that were imported, were not claimed, were not edited, and had no upvotes. This represents approximately half the posts. In a later pass we will look at imported *questions*; the queries would have been too complicated to do these together.
#2: Post edited by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-11-08T19:33:02Z (almost 4 years ago)
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-11-08T16:09:45Z (almost 4 years ago) 
This suggestion grew out of a comment discussion on another answer.  I'm posting it separately so it can be voted on.

As discussed in other answers, straight copies of content from Somewhere Else are almost certainly hurting SEO and, in volume, can give a negative impression -- we look like a copy of another site, and the new content here gets lost in that.  On the other hand, some people have *improved* imported content, and we wouldn't want to throw that out.

I propose that we delete imported content that hasn't been touched here.  Specifically:

- Posts that were imported, not claimed, and not edited: **delete**. For a question, these properties need to apply to the answers too.

- Posts that were imported, claimed, and not edited: **compile a list**, give authors time to improve if they want, and **otherwise delete**.  (We can ask authors to go ahead and delete things they don't think are valuable enough to keep here.)

- Posts that were imported, claimed, not edited, but have at least 5 upvotes (I don't know if we have any of these): the votes indicate that the community found value in them, so **compile a list for public review**.

This review should leave us with a higher concentration of local, valuable content, and many fewer backlinks.  After the dust settles, we can evaluate what remains in a second pass.  And remember, anybody is welcome to re-ask and self-answer questions here -- just make sure you don't cut corners in the question.  Alternatively, we could add articles in some form to our community if people prefer that approach -- resources, wiki, blog, or something else.  These are all ideas that are being explored on some other Codidact communities.