Do you remove low quality content ?

[Cedric]

As a webmaster or admin, one of the ongoing challenges is maintaining the quality of your website's content. One of the strategies for achieving this is by removing low-quality content. However, the question remains: should you remove low-quality content?

On the one hand, removing low-quality content can be beneficial for your website. It can improve the overall quality of your content and make your website more appealing to visitors. Low-quality content can also harm your website's search engine rankings, so removing it can help improve your SEO.

On the other hand, removing low-quality content can be a time-consuming and difficult task. It can also be subjective, as what one person considers low-quality content may be seen as valuable by another. Additionally, removing content can result in a loss of traffic and potentially upset some of your website's users.

So, what do you think? Do you remove low-quality content from your website? Why or why not? Let's discuss the pros and cons of removing low-quality content and share our experiences and opinions on the matter.

 

[Cory]

I don't really remove low-quality content, but just repetitious content. People are generally free to discuss whatever they'd like in the discussion forums, so I think it's safe to say that members will be satisfied with the wide range of topics available for discussion. Then again, some people may be posting troll-like topics or topics completely irrelevant to the forum that make it deemed necessary for removal.

 

[zoldos]

Nah, unless it violates my site's rules. I feel like removing content because *I* think it is low quality seems like I'm judging....

 

[Reverie]

I know there was a period of times where topics got archived and could still be readable but closed and no longer filtered through the active posts.

If it’s repetitive I would merge the topics. I don’t like deleting content because it’s like losing part of someone’s experience. If it is obvious spam that is different though.

 

[Shortie]

As much as I know that high-quality content is better for SEO I do not delete content based on whether I feel that it is low-quality or not as I feel that would be me judging someone else's content and I would hate for that to happen to me.

I feel if you have a balance of high-quality and low-quality content shouldn't affect your SEO too much. Unless it really was a pointless, low-quality spam post then I would not delete it.

 

[Naiwen]

Personally, I leave them be.