Hacker News Reader

> slopper

First new word of 2026. Thank you.

Slop-monger is the term I've seen, and the more evocative one I think.

Sloperator

Slopster

DevSlops engineer

Microslop position.

Slop Driven Development

He was the Slopernicus of his time.

Maybe we could use an LLM to pick the best suggestion /s

This (manual?) addition in the second report [1] likely gives an idea as to the reporter's mastery of English and ability to proofread before spamming out slop:

> Sorry that I'm replying to other triager of other program, so it's mistake went in flow

I think it would be really interesting if someone at HackerOne did a dive into the demographic of many of the banned posters.

[1] https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307#activity-25314164

December 2023... that was early AI era. Had to double-check the dates actually, because I misremembered the release date of GPT-4 as being in 2024; turns out it was in 2023, and that was when LLMs first became remotely useful for even this kind of slop.