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I saw the recent "would a slop button be useful in addition to flags?" and my immediate response was "only if I can also flag people whining about slop. Adds a

• LastTrain 4mo ago
  If slop adds nothing then discussing what is and isn’t slop and how to get rid of it does add something.
• shermantanktop 4mo ago
  I've whined about it. I try not to. Maybe I'm being a nosy bystander, but here's what I see: - User X posts some very AI-ish comment: "It's not X --- it's Y, and the reason is important...blah blah" - User Y responds, taking the original at face value, and disagreeing or otherwise putting time into parsing the ideas in User X's post. - Me, thinking: User Y is being duped, wasting their time, arguing with a ghost, and otherwise being taken for a ride That's not my problem, it's User Y's, and they may have knowingly decided to respond even though User X is posting AI slop. But a forum where that happens a lot doesn't seem like a good place.