With all the best will in the world: your HN account is hours old, your only submission is promoting your thing, and even your title violates guidelines. I am not sure how much you think others should invest in your thing, but if it's 5-minutes reading about it on your website, maybe start by doing unto others?
WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots
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Re: WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots
#22With all the best will in the world: your HN account is hours old, your only submission is promoting your thing, and even your title violates guidelines. I am not sure how much you think others should invest in your thing, but if it's 5-minutes reading about it on your website, maybe start by doing unto others?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They like to call it "karma" around here, after all ;-)
EDIT: Following my own advice, added ;-) to reduce snark
Re: WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots
#23I'm seeing that most of you guys like to rant. This is just a place to review chatbots and customer support. The purpose is trying to improve CS itself and the UX of some websites we tend to use nowadays. Don't you get sick of trying to use chatbots that don't work? Are you not fed up of calling calling CS hotlines and spending loads of money on it?
Now I want to say this as polite as possible, but I think you might be under false impressions as to what this site is. It might look like "Reddit, but for IT", but many people here are very, very particular about protocol. You can disagree with people, in fact, it's good to have people disagree with what you are sharing because it allows you to explain and strengthen your position.
The "rant" is not a bug, it is a feature. The only reason I frequent this website is for the prolific pontification on random topics. There aren't many other places I can find such a high concentration of people with an above average intelligence sharing their internal thoughts and opinions in relatively neutral/objective forum.
I'm a lurker. I don't really post much, because I often don't have much of value to contribute that hasn't already be said. The most valuable aspect of HN is it's dicussions. I've found so many useful bits of info in the comments of seemingly unrelated articles.
> Don't you get sick of trying to use chatbots that don't work? Are you not fed up of calling calling CS hotlines and spending loads of money on it?
You aren't going to convince many people here with a call to action like this, especially after calling a relatively civil discussion between users to be "ranting". Show us why we should care based on the merits of the product at hand. If someone pokes holes in it, defend that feature or accept the criticism. Candidly, I don't even really know much about your product because your behavior here turned me off from even clicking the link.
The message I'm responding to reads as petulant or indignant, which is not a good look if you are attempting to cultivate an audience here. I see your previous response to my commentary on the topic of certain punctuation making human written text look similar to LLM output appears to have broken a rule and subsequently got removed, which is also concerning.
Overall, it may just be best to cut your losses today and stop arguing with every critique/criticism. Maybe a do a bit more research about your audience next time. I say this as someone who has been in your shoes before. Not trying to be a dick. Treat it as a learning experience.
Re: WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots
#24I'm seeing that most of you guys like to rant. This is just a place to review chatbots and customer support. The purpose is trying to improve CS itself and the UX of some websites we tend to use nowadays. Don't you get sick of trying to use chatbots that don't work? Are you not fed up of calling calling CS hotlines and spending loads of money on it?
Now I want to say this as polite as possible, but I think you might be under false impressions as to what this site is. It might look like "Reddit, but for IT", but many people here are very, very particular about protocol. You can disagree with people, in fact, it's good to have people disagree with what you are sharing because it allows you to explain and strengthen your position. The "rant" is not a bug, it is a f…
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Re: WTF Is Botmetr? The First Platform That Rewards You for Hunting Chatbots
#25So what sort of rewards do we get for reporting bots? I know a particular web host that uses a chat bot that was giving me outrageously bad answers.
Promo codes for now. We are thinking about creating a solana faucet in the near future
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#26I'm seeing that most of you guys like to rant. This is just a place to review chatbots and customer support. The purpose is trying to improve CS itself and the UX of some websites we tend to use nowadays. Don't you get sick of trying to use chatbots that don't work? Are you not fed up of calling calling CS hotlines and spending loads of money on it?
Now I want to say this as polite as possible, but I think you might be under false impressions as to what this site is. It might look like "Reddit, but for IT", but many people here are very, very particular about protocol. You can disagree with people, in fact, it's good to have people disagree with what you are sharing because it allows you to explain and strengthen your position. The "rant" is not a bug, it is a f…
I think you should take a good look at your comments, cause if I lack humility you are doing exactly the same and worse. I'm being called "petulant, indignant, arrogant" and so on... I don't recall calling you anything like that.
I'd prefer people to criticize the features of a website rather than saying "this text was written by LLM, you can't even bother to write your own text". The feedback you are providing is not constructive, it's simply meant to troll a piece of text and red flag it as "AI-generated". Either way, I'm apologizing for my comment.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now I want to say this as polite as possible, but I think you might be under false impressions as to what this site is. It might look like "Reddit, but for IT", but many people here are very, very particular about protocol. You can disagree with people, in fact, it's good to have people disagree with what you are sharing because it allows you to explain and strengthen your position. The "rant" is not a bug, it is a f…
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Same to you. I'm apologizing for my comment, even though your feedback was not constructive.