Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
It’s looking worse than Reddit here with totally gutted conversations.
New mod maybe working a little too hard?
New mod maybe working a little too hard?
Raise the overall minimum required karma to 1100 such that any user with <1100 karma:
- Is throttled for 1 comment every 2 days.
- When commenting they can comment with a maximum of 40 characters in the text box.
- They cannot post links (if you post a link === [dead] comment).
- 90 day waiting period until the user can post submissions.
Job done.
Who’s going to keep coming back to post one 40-char comment every two days?
It’s a real problem. Being able to pull in reputation from other sources might help: link established GitHub or (shudder) LinkedIn accounts? Or build the long-fantasized anonymous web of trust reputation thing?
It already seems like most of the comments are that Simon guy and Chris Marshall NY lol. There’s like 10 people left who are allowed visibility.
Seems like the whole site will soon be [dead]
There are far more shill/bot comments that HN gets paid for btw (Claude, kagi, and that bs)
HN used to cite sources. A Lot. It's less now, but your 'problem-solved' proposition would ban new accounts from linking sources on principle, thus degrading their argument to the point of invalidity.
I don’t know what the reason for a mod to mark so many harmless often useful things as [dead] could be.
Sometimes a mod will appear and totally rip a person apart for what I felt was a regular comment. I see power tripping mods here have a mental breakdown over non-issues and ban people and remove all their comments ever posted.
Problem is you’re ruining the site
goes to describe a theory. Did your comments in your other HN account get killed for no reason and that is why you are mad and saying the comments are real?
not all killed comments are AI comments but a good amount of them are because they are bots trying to farm karma. We see the ones that doesn't work but many cases just work and we don't notice.
Sometimes they will [dead] a joke just because it was a joke. Not even offensive just grumpy mod doesn’t want humor so it’s gone.
But that is gutting the site of all its good content.
All that remains is “kagi” “Claude” and the same 4 topics
This not Reddit. Jokes are rarely appropriate here.
> Not even offensive just grumpy mod doesn’t want humor so it’s gone
A lot of dead comments receive flags from users without mods involved. I flag silly jokes sometimes, too.
> They’re not AI comments
You can't argue this without providing examples.
A mod literally reworded my title and it doesn’t say that anywhere lol
Come on guys
Why are you so vague? What was reworded into what exactly?