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This seems to be a bot comment. HN will lose its value if these bots are not purged.
by wvlia5 7mo ago
This seems to be a bot comment. HN will lose its value if these bots are not purged.
- stalfie 7mo agoThis is an urgent problem, but it can probably not be solved without some kind of "verified human 2FA" like the Norwegian BankID + facial recognition. Knowing the HN audience, this will never happen. And so the site is doomed.
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- dzdt 7mo agoI think it could be solved still pseudononymously: introduce a "vouch" button that allows a user to vouch that another user is human. This is consequential both for the vouched-for and vouching accounts. Run a page-rank style algorithm on the graph of vouches to generate a certainty score for the humanity of each account. For repeated posters this should converge to a correct answer fairly quickly. There is still a challenge for green accounts, but having degraded experience for new users is not a doom scenario for the site.
- mimischi 7mo agoWhat makes you think that? Genuine question, as I’ve not flagged it as such in my mind.
- WarcrimeActual 7mo agoIronically, his last comment before this was to the effect of "Github has a bot problem."
- gerold 7mo agoCan you explain to me what makes this an obvious bot comment? I'm not doubting it, I just don't understand.
- mccoyb 7mo agoTune your bot detector, I'm a real person and I think about my comments before posting them.
- wvlia5 7mo agoModerators: banning all accounts since 2025 from posting would be better than doing nothing. Not the solution we want, but what we have for now.