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I'm wary about new accounts such as yours wanting to censor and shape discourse by antagonizing people who hold diverse views that differ from your own here. T

I'm wary about new accounts such as yours wanting to censor and shape discourse by antagonizing people who hold diverse views that differ from your own here. The HN culture has shifted drastically over the past 5 years.

QuantumGood 7mo ago
user: pinkmuffinere created: August 8, 2021 karma: 2686
- rdevilla 7mo ago
  That's a baby in HN years.
  - lovich 7mo ago
    It’s pre LLMs which I view as the real cutoff. Account made in 2022 is dodgy. Accounts made 2023-forward that have a hint of LLM speak or are only spreading divisiveness get an immediate red flag from me.
- xeromal 7mo ago
  This is excellent. lol
pinkmuffinere 7mo ago
To be clear, I wouldn't filter people just because they have different views than me (the goal is to automate the detection, to avoid the effort of reading all the comments -- I should mostly not be in the loop). But I have come across accounts that openly admit to being sock-puppets (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242156 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47242156). These sorts of accounts I would highlight. Likewise for guideline-abusers. I don't really know what heuristic you would use to detect rules abuse, but I imagine there are at least some clear violations that could be detected. Finally, I think I'd make one account for sock-puppets, another for guidelines-abusers, etc, so people can 'subscribe' to whatever degree of 'highlighting' that they want.
ropable 7mo ago
"New account". Meanwhile, the account is 4.5 years old with 2600 karma and has hundreds of thoughtful comments.