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Ask dang: What is the policy for AI bots on HN?
Hey dang/HN,
Q: Is there a policy for AI bots on HN? If not, what are your thoughts on making one?
Background:
I was wondering if there are ways to automate certain common types of interactions on HN. Like dropping a comment with an archive.org link for paywalled stories or unfurling a twitter thread etc. Also, I am sure a lot of bots already exist for promoting some content etc.
Suggestion: IMHO, an official way to mark accounts as bots could be beneficial to the community and then penalizing those that are masquerading as real people.
- LinuxBender 2y agoThe best way to reach him would be emailing: hn@ycombinator.com Please be patient as team dang get a lot of emails. It could be a day or so to get a response depending on how many things they are working on.
- ThrowawayR2 2y agoIt was addressed by dang in an earlier Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747 "They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either!"
- diwank 2y agogotcha. thanks for the pointer!