Dev does not monitor showcase page and nix spammy sites?

Question

About a year ago I think I raised the issue "its a damn shame that so many sites listed on the Q2A 'Sites' showcase page represent POOR examples of the app's implementation". As I recall, the excuse was "it's handled automatically by a bot/crawler". Again, I'm compelled to opine "it's a damn shame". All those spambot-post filled sites & other less-than-desirable sites... they all benefit from exposure (and backlinks) here on the question2answer.org site.

Comments

PM me any site that looks problematic and I will review it again.

Answer 1

I do indeed check for spam, but occasionally I miss something. Also sometimes legit sites turn spammy over time. If you tell me which sites are concerning you I'll be happy to take another look.

Comments

I can only assess English sites, but as of today we only have to scroll down to number TEN on the list
www . deochittoor . org/qa/
to see such a poor example, and there are plenty more (spammy, english) sites currently listed

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Thanks - I removed that one. It started out OK then seems to have got spammy over time. Feel free to mention any more you notice.

Answer 2

Perhaps a community upvote/downvote system would be a good way to deal with this?

Comments

good idea :)

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I can only read/review english language sites. Across the months, every time I've checked, several spamsites have made it into the showcase (woohoo! backlinks!)

Also, I have repeatedly encountered (mislabeled by the auto discovery bot?) showcase sites marked as being english... but the site at the linked destination is clearly not english (nor multilingual).

The project's reputation would be better served by presenting 20 or so hand-picked exemplary sites. Exemplary, not with a fixation toward "number of questions" (longstanding, or providing thorough coverage of a niche topic are possible qualifiers)

As is, seems the showcase/bot mechanism is leading shady site operators to engage in tactics like: a) register domain, b) scrape, import, or just post gibberish to acheive "lots of questions, lots of apparent activity" c) achieve backlink from the showcase page and elsewhere d) attempt to sell the "now PageRanked x" domain