It’s looking worse than Reddit here with totally gutted conversations.
New mod maybe working a little too hard?
Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
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Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#2The site is being flooded or more like hammered with AI submissions. If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them.
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#3The 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.
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#4The 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.
Probably leads to long term site death as fewer new people have the patience for that, and older users age out/die.
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?
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#5The site is being flooded or more like hammered with AI submissions. If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them.
I don’t believe that. Almost all the ones marked [dead] are real, normal comments simply disagreeing with the official HN viewpoints.
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#6there are some AI bots working full time replying many threads. The HN moderation system doesn't ban them but kill all their posts.
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#7The 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.
I’d never use it.
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)
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#8The site is being flooded or more like hammered with AI submissions. If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them.
I don’t believe that. Almost all the ones marked [dead] are real, normal comments simply disagreeing with the official HN viewpoints.
if you have a theory already why did you ask a question?
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I’d never use it. 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)
on that I will agree, simonw is the allowed AI spammer.
Re: Ask HN: Why so many [dead] replies?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t believe that. Almost all the ones marked [dead] are real, normal comments simply disagreeing with the official HN viewpoints.
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 posted.