Has Sloan Flagged Your Article Lately?

By Daniel Nwaneri on Jun 15, 2026. Originally published on DEV.to.
Has Sloan Flagged Your Article Lately?

Mine got flagged twice in one day.

Both essays generated more engagement than anything else I've published here. One had a five-exchange technical comment thread building a production architecture on top of it. The other had an AI podcast episode generated from it before it even published.

The founder of DEV.to liked one of them before the bot flagged it.

I'm not here to argue about the policy. The guidelines are reasonable. AI disclosure is fair. I added the disclaimers and moved on.

But I want to know if this is just me.

If Sloan has flagged you recently, drop a comment. Three things I'm curious about:

  1. What kind of article was it — tutorial, opinion, essay?
  2. Did you use AI assistance, and if so how much?
  3. Did you think the flag was fair?

I want to know if there's a pattern or if I got unlucky twice in one day.