> None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
What is HN doing differently then?
What is HN doing differently then?
Issue is we are seeing a ton of AI stuff getting posted so it's a losing battle.
And once again, mandatory tags feature which you could either use to hide content or "subscribe" to would help here.
Currently an unsolved problem - just stealthier on some platforms than others. Trigger the right topic on HN and the bots come out in-force together with humans sloppily copy/pasting LLM content.
Look at how many updoots it has. Look at how many vacuous, enthusiastic replies it got. That post is especially egregious, but you see stuff like that on a lesser scale every day here, now. My favorite bit is when they go out of their way to shill specific plans/pricing, e.g.:
> You really NEED the $200 Claude MAX plan.