bots aren’t allowed either, so the question is just ‘how does HN prevent abuse’. I don’t know the details but it seems to do fine in most cases. One really eff

bots aren’t allowed either, so the question is just ‘how does HN prevent abuse’. I don’t know the details but it seems to do fine in most cases. One really effective mechanism is users notice and squish misbehavior - with flags (as you found out) or by telling site admins about iffy things. As to why generated comments aren’t allowed, that’s mentioned in the mod verbiage I linked - it’s a site for human conversation and llm output is not that.