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Flagged this. As much as I also love to dunk on Microsoft, this kind of crapware is not the way to do it. [I personally] don’t want this on the front page. [And I think others should join me in that belief. Let’s try to keep it a place for interesting things that took some effort.]

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Its hard to flagged based on your opinion though because at least 200 upvoters thought it should be upvoted? Just don't upvote it. If a bunch of people (non-bots) upvote it I think by definition they found it interesting?

I upvoted it because of the whole context, i.e. Microsoft ban and lock: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tire...

Maybe it's not the way to do it, but the way to do it is/was also on the front page at the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216047

Hmm... Who's "we"? Did HN users elect you as a representative?

Better?

This is a beautifully thoughtful satire. Why would it need to be flagged?

we do

Then can you take yourselves back to Reddit or something? This used to be an interesting place to visit that was differentiated from other “hot take” havens on the net.

Well, when a good faith [0] submission from a respectable unaffiliated developer is disparaged on a place like reddit by some heavy-handed action, a natural reaction can be something like "Who died and made you bhagwan?"

Now that you mention it, the similarity is more obvious than I thought.

[0] OK, moderate faith, "there's an LLM involved so it's got to be crapware".

Not my downvote btw, never have never will, that's almost as chickenshit as can be. Almost.

I appreciate your ethics. I do not share your views.

I appreciate effort to make this a better place, I just would rather do it with upvotes more than anything else.

I don't prefer slop at all, plus people already know Microsoft has declined more in one recent year than any other, and this Microslop site is kind of a lame response, but it did draw some worthwhile comments. This is the kind of thing that has been on peoples' minds so that's what comes out.

I don't think it's gostsamo promoting his own work, just something he ran across that emphasizes how bad it could get or maybe how bad it already is in some quarters.

Pure slop really and it's bound to get the strongest reaction, but quite interesting when plenty of 90% slop is passing under the radar quite regularly.

I find that actually this is basically reddit already. The political reinforcement circle jerk is the same. The bad faith arguments are the same, often by people parroting the accepted status quo while anonymously flagging / downvoting / misrepresenting arguments to those of us with our actual names on our profiles.

Tiresome.

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