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Comment by binarymax | Hacker News Reader

The logos are great, but does anyone get the feeling the description copy is written by an algorithm? It feels so “matter of fact” and uninspired.

EDIT: I went back to reread it just to be sure and the first paragraph is a robot fellow kids. Nobody writes like this. It's hilariously bad.

"No doubt, skateboarding is an adventure of its kind. It’s popular among youth, and youngsters seem to possess endless admiration for fun, physical activity. Considering its popularity, it’s no secret that the youth participate in the sport featuring various cool skateboard logos."

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Agreed, and there are some innacuracies that could have been corrected with a little research. For example, the description under the Girl logo states "The company doesn’t only make skateboarding products for females, but it has launched skateboards for male skaters." but the company name never had anything to do with products for girls at all.

As an aside, I'd always assumed that the Birdhouse logo is what it is because it's based on the Bauhaus typeface and the names are similar... I'm surprised that's not picked up on here.

What is the alternative?

What I mean in the long tail the our choice is less between bot-generation and human writing and more between bot-generation and nothing.

The choice isn’t between the TFA [sic] and something better - and if the article didn’t have any text a person could argue it would be better. The choice seems to be between the article and something worse (at least in terms of images of the logos).

It's funny that you say nobody writes like that when this is a very very common thing that I encounter all over the internet. It's just throw away writing intended to occupy the page so that they have some reason for you to come view their ads.

Maybe you encounter it all over the internet because a good portion of it is blogspam written by bots?

Maybe, but I think there's a bit of it that is either new writers thinking that's how you write or just adding words so they have enough to satisfy the person in charge of determining whether it's long enough to draw ad money.

For instance: https://gamerant.com/elden-ring-runes-decreasing-disappeared...

Yes. The repetition of "skateboard logo" and some odd grammatical use keyed me into this feeling too.

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