We're so good at filtering spam that we've made it impossible to talk about new tools
Research tool discussions are basically impossible on Reddit right now. Either the sub is flooded with AI-generated garbage, or the mods are so aggressive about filtering it that any real conversation gets killed too.
There are people here who have thought seriously about what's missing in their workflow. And there are researchers who are actually building things to fill those gaps. Those two groups should be talking but there's no space for it.
I'm one of them, I've been building something for the past year, I won't get into it. But I've noticed that the moment you've made something, any question you ask gets read as market research, even when it's genuine.
r/MachineLearning has a weekly self-promotion thread. It's not perfect but it does something smart: it puts all the noise in one place and leaves the rest of the sub free for actual discussion. Would something like that work here, or is there a better way to handle it?