I mean they’ve had the opportunity for years, with spam and seo, already. They just chose to join in on the party and drive any reputation they did have into th

I mean they’ve had the opportunity for years, with spam and seo, already. They just chose to join in on the party and drive any reputation they did have into the ground. Then they tried to play the reputation game again by paywalling articles, but using the dumbest mechanism of free-article-views that basically just continues to incentive seo spam from their own writers. It remains unclear to me why they haven’t adopted a model like LWN — paywall freshness instead of content altogether, and rebuild their reputation and relevance