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> None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community pl
by jzig 7mo ago
> None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
What is HN doing differently then?
- pixl97 7mo agoA lot of banning for one, along with getting rid of most politics and off topic stuff. Issue is we are seeing a ton of AI stuff getting posted so it's a losing battle.
- papyrus9244 7mo agoI used to love HN. Lots of interesting stuff, great articles, novel projects. Now it feels like the frontpage is always around 70% LLM-related stuff. And not breakthrough research or projects, just "new Claude version X" and shit like that. Eternal September I guess?
- pndy 7mo agoTry this: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/462650-hacker-news-filter https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/462650-hacker-news-filter - works pretty well. And once again, mandatory tags feature which you could either use to hide content or "subscribe" to would help here.
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- dudeinhawaii 7mo agoIt's not, hence the "don't post AI slop as your comment" posting a few days back that had 1000+ comments. Currently an unsolved problem - just stealthier on some platforms than others. Trigger the right topic on HN and the bots come out in-force together with humans sloppily copy/pasting LLM content.
- _zagj 7mo agoDid you not see this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282777 Look at how many updoots it has. Look at how many vacuous, enthusiastic replies it got. That post is especially egregious, but you see stuff like that on a lesser scale every day here, now. My favorite bit is when they go out of their way to shill specific plans/pricing, e.g.: > You really NEED the $200 Claude MAX plan.