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People keep saying chat gpt is the replacement for search, but chat gpt powered bing search is an obscene joke that barely works. Google's problem is that i se
by esotericimpl 4y ago
People keep saying chat gpt is the replacement for search, but chat gpt powered bing search is an obscene joke that barely works.
Google's problem is that i searched for "Cape Code VRBO" this morning and couldn't get my answer without scrolling past a full screen of ads.
- croisillon 4y agoYou seem to be kind of shadowban (not sure what the proper term is), you might want to write an email to the hn moderation to clear that up
- bogomipz 4y agoI'm curious, what about their post indicates that status?
- croisillon 4y agonot anymore because someone vouched for it, but all their other posts
- bogomipz 4y agoMy question was about how you spot that status.
- shric 4y agoGiving detail that you probably already know in case it's useful for others. When you have "showdead" enabled in the settings you can see all the "dead" posts. A dead post is one that has been marked such that it only appears if you have the above setting enabled and prohibits replies to it. This is usually because it's deemed too off topic or otherwise obnoxious to have value. The post in question was probably marked dead and because it wasn't particularly offtopic or obnoxious then a shadowban is a reasonable assumption. This could be further verified by noticing that that person's comments are almost all dead. This suggests either they're shadowbanned or are remarkably consistent at producing offtopic/obnoxious posts without getting shadowbanned.
- esotericimpl 4y ago[dead]