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Isn’t this the forum for the technically curious? So yes, it matters.

• fragmede 2y ago
  and I'm curious on the technical details for why it matters for you. if it's, say, a chrome extension someone whipped up that makes it a button click to generate, or a script someone handcrafted, or somone had an LLM generate, or a fully automated bot doing it off a Cron job, or a billionaire is paying a human in the Philippines to do it by hand, some SV startup millionaire is bored with life and spends too much time here, a college student that has some free time between classes... the end result is a relatively simple post linking back to previous threads. in what manner does having a human in the loop for that specific post affect your broader feelings about this site?
  • tonymet 2y ago
    I’m merely curious.
    • fragmede 2y ago
      so, how does it matter?
      • tonymet 2y ago
        I can't possibly explain it any better than "I'm curious, and at hackernews we are here to discuss & understand how things work"
        • fragmede 2y ago
          and I'm here to understand how, among other things, how other people (who aren't things) work/think. It was clearly important enough of a question for you to bother to login and post the comment asking if it was a bot, and you wanted some sort of reaction from you posting that message, so I ask, in all earnestly and not confrontationally - there are no wrong answers, what were you thinking?
          • tonymet 2y ago
            It's a good idea and I was curious if it was a bot or manual. reply
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