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I'm not sure if you flagged my comment too, but I'm a real person with a posting history. psnehanshu also has a posting history and contact information on their

by _upoi 3y ago

I'm not sure if you flagged my comment too, but I'm a real person with a posting history. psnehanshu also has a posting history and contact information on their profile, so I doubt this person is a bot or a person who wrote an AI-generated comment. I manually highlighted the key parts of the article in my comment to encourage discussion, for people who read the comments first. I'm not sure what psnehanshu posted as it's flagged, but making claims that early comments are AI-generated (especially when they are likely not the case) cuts down on discussion. The parent to the comment you linked to also disclosed that it was AI-generated. My comment was not, and I'm willing to bet that psnehanshu's comment was not either.

pvg 3y ago
Generated comments are not allowed for the reasons linked above and the GP comment says it was generated. Summary comments and comments that are mostly pastes from the article are discouraged as well for similar reasons: See item #2 in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237697 Comments that do nothing but quote from the article, or try to summarize the article, are considered too formulaic by readers here. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do it in your own words and share your own thinking. To simply paste a quote from the article is too superficial. On HN the convention is to assume that readers are smart enough to evaluate an article for themselves.
- _upoi 3y ago
  I admit that I was wrong here, point taken. I appreciate the reference.
  - pvg 3y ago
    Incidentally, if you want to see comments that were flagged to death, click on your username in the top bar and then change the 'showdead' option in the profile settings from 'no' to 'yes'. Just keep in mind you'll also end up seeing some pretty shitty comments every now and then.
dgacmu 3y ago
psnehanshu's comment literally begins with "TL;DR by Gemini"
- pvg 3y ago
  Lots of people have showdead off by default and don't know it's there/what it does.
  - dgacmu 3y ago
    They're probably wiser than I, now that I think about it. :-) Showdead certainly makes you appreciate the moderation that happens.

by _upoi 3y ago

pvg 3y ago

Generated comments are not allowed for the reasons linked above and the GP comment says it was generated. Summary comments and comments that are mostly pastes from the article are discouraged as well for similar reasons: See item #2 in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237697 Comments that do nothing but quote from the article, or try to summarize the article, are considered too formulaic by readers here. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do it in your own words and share your own thinking. To simply paste a quote from the article is too superficial. On HN the convention is to assume that readers are smart enough to evaluate an article for themselves.

_upoi 3y ago
I admit that I was wrong here, point taken. I appreciate the reference.
- pvg 3y ago
  Incidentally, if you want to see comments that were flagged to death, click on your username in the top bar and then change the 'showdead' option in the profile settings from 'no' to 'yes'. Just keep in mind you'll also end up seeing some pretty shitty comments every now and then.

dgacmu 3y ago

psnehanshu's comment literally begins with "TL;DR by Gemini"

pvg 3y ago
Lots of people have showdead off by default and don't know it's there/what it does.
- dgacmu 3y ago
  They're probably wiser than I, now that I think about it. :-) Showdead certainly makes you appreciate the moderation that happens.