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If the contnet aligns with the interests of this community as apparently it did generation a bunch of views that I'll take your word for, then if it really a problem? If the community does not like something they can ignore downvote and flag and it will go wherever the crap goes.

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I tend to agree, although I wonder if we won't get flooded by agents pretending to be regular users and submitting their slop to HN. It might well be happening already (e.g., [1]).

Worse: it will get harder to differentiate what is a legitimate ShowHN from a nefarious agent trying to infiltrate malware. Yes, supply-chain attacks existed for ages, but now script kiddies can create xz-level attacks without even realizing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667385

We will get flooded eventually. Bad actors already know how to game HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517728 .

the problem is that the "aligns with the interests of this community" can also be manipulated.

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