This is changing the subject slightly, but I don't think it's been mentioned before. FQuist and I were talking this morning and the subject of articles came up. It seems that a lot of bad\non-useful articles are taking up space in the articles section.

One option is to have rating of articles, just like levels. But that poses a problem because it is much harder to rate articles. Do you rate on how well-written it is? How useful it is? How thorough it is? It may be a very informative article but it only applies to some people so others would rate it lower because of that. Or it could be very informative but written by someone who doesn't know English very well, also lowering the rating.

This is why rating of articles isn't a good solution. Something I thought of was instead having an approval process. Unlike levels, articles almost become part of the site content and should all be good. With an approval process, articles would be submitted by anyone but wouldn't automatically appear. They would need to be read by someone on the J2O staff who would evaluate the quality and usefulness, and maybe make minor changes to it.

This way, article clutter would be kept at a minimum, and it would ensure that good articles still get included even if they do not apply to many people or have readability problems while still being informative.

Thoughts?