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How is it picking the comments? If it's all comments, including flagged/dead/downvoted/etc., then it's not reflective of the actual filtering HN does. But if
by crazygringo 6mo ago
How is it picking the comments?
If it's all comments, including flagged/dead/downvoted/etc., then it's not reflective of the actual filtering HN does.
But if it's weighting comments by their likelihood of being read -- e.g. mostly top comments on popular stories -- then I'd be a lot more curious.
I'm not surprised AI spam has increased substantially. But I'd be surprised if it's affected the comments most people actually read to anywhere close to the degree shown in this graph.
- sobradob 6mo agoIts a random-ish sample. Question, do you often use -- in your writing?
- crazygringo 6mo agoAll the time. So funny, it's so automatic I genuinely didn't even realize I was using them in a comment about em dashes. My comment history has been full of them for over a decade by now... and I think you can tell which comments are from my phone vs my laptop by whether they're converted to — or not.