It's been a great jam for me and many others. Loads of quality feedback has been given, life is good. Then there are the other others who don't seem to get it. They take the wrong things and treat them way too seriously.

These are the types I've seen in this jam, without naming any names:

• One user leaving fake comments gobbled together from other users' comments, without playing the entry itself.
• One user poaching ratings, promising to add more features once Rating milestones are met.
• Multiple users loudly advertising their Rating goals. "Help me reach 100 by the end of the week!", then next week "Help me reach 150 before the end of the jam!"
• A few users outright spamming the very same ad post every single day.

Why am I complaining?

• Spam is annoying and hides more interesting posts under it.
• To hopefully make these people understand that learning to become better and helping others is the point of the jam, not fame. (Luckily there is no money involved in the jam, directly at least!)
• To have a stern talk about fairness. If you have considerably more ratings than you've given out, look in the mirror! There are many entries with less than 20 ratings and you are only thinking about yourself.

What can we do?

Always check the ratings received/given ratio. I kind of understand it if a "celebrity" has 139 (just a random number off the top of my head) to 0 ratio, they have fans and cannot help it.

How could the site be improved for future jams?

• Flag for spam button. There is no need to surveil and ban people, just have a visible X people think this is spam flag in each post. Then the author at least knows they've gone too far.
• Tags. Each post needs to be tagged one of the following: Pre-release, Release (one per user), New version, Post-mortem (one per user), Educational (as in articles about useful dev techniques), Advertisement or Other. Posts in the wrong category would get the spam button treatment pretty fast.
• Main page tag filters. So if I don't want to see Advertisement posts, then I can just toggle them off. Simple!

I just had to get this off my chest. Have a nice last day.