Slopwatch: A Cause for Hope, the Hype is Dying
First, we'd like to say some good stuff, a bit of good news for a change. About a week ago BetaNews kicked out all the mythical "hey hi" writers and brought back onboard three people - real people! - including the former editor. One of them is a Microsoft booster, but at least that site is no longer a slopfarm.
For about a month we showed that becoming a slopfarm - for several weeks - resulted in utter failure and ruin for BetaNews. If sites can recognise this error and then try to correct it, then we wish them the best.
Sadly, as my wife noticed this morning, Linux Journal is still a slopfarm. It has just released another piece of slop:
Several scanners independently confirm that it is LLM slop. The same is (as always) true for this nonsense from Brittany Day, piggybacking real articles about Thunderbird 140 ESR:
This is fake, as usual, and it's hard to believe that domain will ever quit doing LLM slop. It's just so hopeless.
Linux Journal has been a slopfarm only for a number of months, so there's still hope it'll change direction and recover. Who at Slashdot decided to turn that domain into a slop experiment? █