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Can you clarify?

romanhn 2y ago
Please don't post ChatGPT-generated text on HN. You're very likely to be downvoted/flagged, which is what happened here. People here are capable of using ChatGPT themselves, and most of that text is not interesting in the HN sense. Separately, I think the answer was clear to most people - they did better than other well-paying alternatives (meaning it wasn't a poor outcome / waste of effort from individual perspective), but they're not going to share the specifics.
- orliesaurus 2y ago
  Oh I didn't know there was a rule about that - I was just trying to save people a click or two. Noted for the future!
  - meiraleal 2y ago
    There is no rule about that and your use of chatgpt in this case is useful and brought data to a different perspective. It is fair to ask if they got a good money for it or just a nice job
    - tptacek 2y ago
      There certainly is a rule about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=generated%20comment%20author%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
      - meiraleal 2y ago
        That's not the same. OP used ChatGPT to improve an answer that didn't say much turning it into something tangible and that added value to the discussion.
        pvg 2y ago
        It's exactly the same - it's not human conversation and the poster couldn't even assess what they were posting.
        orliesaurus 2y ago
        > the poster couldn't even assess what they were posting Uhm disagree, I know what I was posting (doesn't seem it was against the rules either), I was trying to understand better the answer that OP had submitted as a reply to my first question. It definitely helped me put it into a better perspective (i.e. no clue what an average salary at a large company looks like). That being said the answer to my question from the author still lacks enough details to make "total sense" in my mind - even after passing it through GPT.
        tptacek 2y ago
        This thread is kind of going on and on, but for whatever it's worth, the general rule is "don't post generated comments". We're not the thread police, but you're going to find that comments that are significantly LLM-generated are going to get flagged to death. We're here for human conversation. Maybe next time, just suggest "here's a prompt I used that got a good GPT 4o response, go try it".
        orliesaurus 2y ago
        Noted, ty, wont do it again - sucks to be downvoted and flagged but lesson learned
        tptacek 2y ago
        It's no big deal! You shouldn't feel bad about anything.
        meiraleal 2y ago
        don't take it to heart, the content wasn't bad and in the context, a chatgpt answer made sense (in place of you using its content as your own message which would be weird).

Can you clarify?

Please don't post ChatGPT-generated text on HN. You're very likely to be downvoted/flagged, which is what happened here. People here are capable of using ChatGPT themselves, and most of that text is not interesting in the HN sense. Separately, I think the answer was clear to most people - they did better than other well-paying alternatives (meaning it wasn't a poor outcome / waste of effort from individual perspective), but they're not going to share the specifics.

orliesaurus 2y ago
Oh I didn't know there was a rule about that - I was just trying to save people a click or two. Noted for the future!
- meiraleal 2y ago
  There is no rule about that and your use of chatgpt in this case is useful and brought data to a different perspective. It is fair to ask if they got a good money for it or just a nice job
  - tptacek 2y ago
    There certainly is a rule about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=generated%20comment%20author%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
    - meiraleal 2y ago
      That's not the same. OP used ChatGPT to improve an answer that didn't say much turning it into something tangible and that added value to the discussion.
      - pvg 2y ago
        It's exactly the same - it's not human conversation and the poster couldn't even assess what they were posting.
        orliesaurus 2y ago
        > the poster couldn't even assess what they were posting Uhm disagree, I know what I was posting (doesn't seem it was against the rules either), I was trying to understand better the answer that OP had submitted as a reply to my first question. It definitely helped me put it into a better perspective (i.e. no clue what an average salary at a large company looks like). That being said the answer to my question from the author still lacks enough details to make "total sense" in my mind - even after passing it through GPT.
        tptacek 2y ago
        This thread is kind of going on and on, but for whatever it's worth, the general rule is "don't post generated comments". We're not the thread police, but you're going to find that comments that are significantly LLM-generated are going to get flagged to death. We're here for human conversation. Maybe next time, just suggest "here's a prompt I used that got a good GPT 4o response, go try it".
        orliesaurus 2y ago
        Noted, ty, wont do it again - sucks to be downvoted and flagged but lesson learned
        tptacek 2y ago
        It's no big deal! You shouldn't feel bad about anything.
        meiraleal 2y ago
        don't take it to heart, the content wasn't bad and in the context, a chatgpt answer made sense (in place of you using its content as your own message which would be weird).