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Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by cyanclouds »

cyanclouds wrote: post #10
brazukadev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you have a theory already why did you ask a question?

Who said I have a theory? I just don’t believe it’s AI since I’ve seen the [dead] comments. 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 poste…

They’ll go back years deleting old comments that were fine just to “get” the user even more.

Problem is you’re ruining the site

Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by cyanclouds »

brazukadev wrote: post #6

there are some AI bots working full time replying many threads. The HN moderation system doesn't ban them but kill all their posts.

They’re not AI comments. They are very often regular people just sharing viewpoints which many times seem totally fine.

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

Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by brazukadev »

cyanclouds wrote: post #10
brazukadev wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if you have a theory already why did you ask a question?

Who said I have a theory? I just don’t believe it’s AI since I’ve seen the [dead] comments. 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 poste…

"I don't have a theory"

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.

Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by JohnFen »

rvz wrote: post #3
Bender wrote: post #2

The site is being flooded or more like hammered with AI submissions. If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them.

> If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them. Raise the overall minimum required karma to 1100 such that any user with - 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.

You may as well just ban new users altogether.

Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by fsflover »

cyanclouds wrote: post #12
brazukadev wrote: post #6

there are some AI bots working full time replying many threads. The HN moderation system doesn't ban them but kill all their posts.

They’re not AI comments. They are very often regular people just sharing viewpoints which many times seem totally fine. 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

> Sometimes they will [dead] a joke just because it was a joke.

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.

Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by redlimetea »

brazukadev wrote: post #14
cyanclouds wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who said I have a theory? I just don’t believe it’s AI since I’ve seen the [dead] comments. 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 poste…

"I don't have a theory" 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.

[dead]

Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by redlimetea »

fsflover wrote: post #16
cyanclouds wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re not AI comments. They are very often regular people just sharing viewpoints which many times seem totally fine. 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

> Sometimes they will [dead] a joke just because it was a joke. 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.

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Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?

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Post by orangelimesoda »

fsflover wrote: post #17
cyanclouds wrote: post #13

Not just replies but submissions. A mod literally reworded my title and it doesn’t say that anywhere lol Come on guys

> A mod literally reworded my title Why are you so vague? What was reworded into what exactly?

Read again genius
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