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Why are two good quality comments on this thread dead on arrival?

I've seen this happen a lot recently, when the page still has relatively few comments. Insightful comments are dead leaving behind trivial ones.

What's going on?

Check out those accounts' other comments. They're AI spambots. This level of banal observation can now be produced automatically.

From what you've pointed out, it seems this account is having all their comments killed, presumably on suspicion (or evidence) of generated content.

What's interesting to me is that that comment (at least on this thread) was genuinely insightful though.