Yes, I think this is a real problem. I'm going to be doing an interview with Sinem on Thursday about this topic. Readers want us to raise the bar for what we curate and distribute (and that's obvious to anyone looking). What that would mean is that articles that cleared the bar would make more.

Here's the upcoming interview.

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