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I'm sorry you're going through this! But also a little suspicious because a nearly word-for-word message was posted four days ago on Reddit with some of the det

I'm sorry you're going through this! But also a little suspicious because a nearly word-for-word message was posted four days ago on Reddit with some of the details different, including the major and presence of a master's degree, but most of the same phrasing (https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1q9gdff/unemployed_almost_a_year_after_graduating_mit_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1q9gdff/unemployed_alm...). If these rants are somehow from the same person (maybe you did both majors and only discussed one in each post?), fair enough and I really am sorry, but I do wonder if we're being experimented upon. :-(

windowshopping 9mo ago
Wow, good catch. It is exactly the same post but listing mechanical engineering against instead of software engineering. And this is from a new account.
mlmonkey 9mo ago
The Reddit post says course 2 and this one says course 6 !!! Definitely not the same person. /s
- deleted 9mo ago
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cyrialize 9mo ago
Dang, and I felt like I wrote up a good response lol
Windchaser 9mo ago
Note that if you're looking for the differences between the two comments, look at the bits in asterisks ("course 6"). Might be other differences; I haven't run it through a diff
yodon 9mo ago
Genuine question: Is this karma farming? Why would one try to karma farm on a site where karma brings no value (other than a low one-time threshold where you gain an unimportant power)?
- hysan 9mo ago
  I think hitting the flagging threshold is probably the most tangible power as having enough accounts with that power will let you “suppress” certain topics. At least until a mod intervenes. (Unless I’m misremembering. I think flagging required some level of karma. Or was that vouching?)
- muwtyhg 9mo ago
  There is more value for having karma on this site than Reddit. You unlock new HackerNews abilities (flag, report, vouch) as you hit certain point thresholds. Reddit has no such feature. > other than a low one-time threshold where you gain an unimportant power What power is "important" in your opinion? Is being able to flag or vouch for flagged links unimportant?
  - ImprovedSilence 9mo ago
    It could be that. It could be AI farming. Ask questions you want AI to be able to answer, get a bunch of reasonable comments for the models to gobble up. Next time you ask google, gemeni might even post links to this very post! I'd say it's 50/50 if it's for AI or astroturfing.
schmookeeg 9mo ago
This bums me out so much. It means that we need the concept of "late-stage internet" to join capitalism describing things that were awesome and now they're much worse and getting worse-rer. :/
- red-iron-pine 9mo ago
  20-50% of the responses in every topic in HN are probably bots. this one is just obvious. note: this may also be an automated response
irthomasthomas 9mo ago
Those who replied earnestly are going on a list. You will be added to a different list for spoiling the experiment.

windowshopping 9mo ago

Wow, good catch. It is exactly the same post but listing mechanical engineering against instead of software engineering. And this is from a new account.

mlmonkey 9mo ago

The Reddit post says course 2 and this one says course 6 !!! Definitely not the same person. /s

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cyrialize 9mo ago

Dang, and I felt like I wrote up a good response lol

Windchaser 9mo ago

Note that if you're looking for the differences between the two comments, look at the bits in asterisks ("course 6"). Might be other differences; I haven't run it through a diff

yodon 9mo ago

Genuine question: Is this karma farming? Why would one try to karma farm on a site where karma brings no value (other than a low one-time threshold where you gain an unimportant power)?

hysan 9mo ago
I think hitting the flagging threshold is probably the most tangible power as having enough accounts with that power will let you “suppress” certain topics. At least until a mod intervenes. (Unless I’m misremembering. I think flagging required some level of karma. Or was that vouching?)
muwtyhg 9mo ago
There is more value for having karma on this site than Reddit. You unlock new HackerNews abilities (flag, report, vouch) as you hit certain point thresholds. Reddit has no such feature. > other than a low one-time threshold where you gain an unimportant power What power is "important" in your opinion? Is being able to flag or vouch for flagged links unimportant?
- ImprovedSilence 9mo ago
  It could be that. It could be AI farming. Ask questions you want AI to be able to answer, get a bunch of reasonable comments for the models to gobble up. Next time you ask google, gemeni might even post links to this very post! I'd say it's 50/50 if it's for AI or astroturfing.

schmookeeg 9mo ago

This bums me out so much. It means that we need the concept of "late-stage internet" to join capitalism describing things that were awesome and now they're much worse and getting worse-rer. :/

red-iron-pine 9mo ago
20-50% of the responses in every topic in HN are probably bots. this one is just obvious. note: this may also be an automated response

irthomasthomas 9mo ago

Those who replied earnestly are going on a list. You will be added to a different list for spoiling the experiment.