Raising the bar

I just went through the queue of submissions to blogroll.org and probably deleted 95% of what was in there. This is not unusual, and has become more and more common lately. A big reason for this is clearly AI. The amount of slop submissions I’m getting is trending upwards, unfortunately. The other big reason is people attempting to use the blogroll as a way to get traffic for their shitty marketing sites, which is obviously annoying and a waste of my time. There’s people who have submitted their stupid marketing sites multiple times, and I’m starting to contemplate the possibility of blacklisting domains because some people out there clearly don’t know how to behave. But all this is making me question the value of big lists in an age where content is becoming more and more abundant. There are people out there—idiots, if you ask me—who think that coding has become a commodity, that everyone can make a site with just a few prompts, and that producing content worth consuming has become…