Is the Blog Section Helping or Hurting the Community?

What are your thoughts about the Blog section?

I’m really hoping the new UX addresses what I’ll call the “slop factor” and gives us a better way to manage what actually belongs in the blogging section.

Put yourself in the shoes of someone who joined Wealthy Affiliate today because they want to learn. They click on the Blog section and start looking around. What impression are we giving them?

I’ll be the first to admit that I was part of the problem. I used to pump out meaningless and unverified posts too. We’ve all been there.

But some of what gets published now, and especially some of the endless post series, adds little or no real value. If and when you take a few minutes to fact-check some of these posts, you sometimes find outdated information that appears to have been pulled straight from AI without anyone bothering to verify it.

That I feel is a problem.

AI isn’t the problem by itself. Using AI without adding experience, thought, accuracy, or anything of your own is the problem.

The Blog section should be one of the places that demonstrates the value of the community. It should help a new member learn something, discover a different perspective, or maybe even avoid a mistake someone else has already made.

Instead, sometimes it feels like we’re rewarding people simply for publishing something.

So I’ll ask again: What are your thoughts on the blogging section? And more importantly, do you think the new UX should address this, or is this just something we have to accept as part of an open blogging platform?