How and Why Once-Legitimate Sites Turn Into Slopfarms
Moments ago: UbuntuPIT Became a Slopfarm and Gnoppix Tarnishes Its Own Brand With Slop
Slopfarms became abundant in recent years. Why? Hype. Or hope and hype.
Even some dormant/abandoned sites only came back to temporarily experiment with slop; they quickly found out there was no potential in it and then they stopped. Brian Fagioli even lost his job over it.
It's not hard to understand what seems alluring to them. Some of them write pieces almost nobody will read and have sites that almost nobody truly follows (except bots with paid-for clicks in social control media).
Some sites choose to 'die' with dignity. Opportunists, however, decide to do 'experiments' which only muddy the water. There's no easy or fast way to recover from this. As we put it 6 months ago: Once You Slop You Can't Stop and If You're a Serial Slopper Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did)
Publishing low-quality slop in high quantities won't make up for audience being meagre. All that's likely to happen is, the platform will lose credibility, altogether.
Social control media, struggling to fake engagement (or fabricate some when the real engagement goes down), has turned into junk. Some people speak to bots instead of other people. Many don't even realise that they speak to bots or receive replies from bots.
Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop. There's no incentive to keep that going. MSN Spaces shut down because Microsoft realised almost 100% of the material hosted there was spam. █