> None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
What is HN doing differently then?
> None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
What is HN doing differently then?
A lot of banning for one, along with getting rid of most politics and off topic stuff.
Issue is we are seeing a ton of AI stuff getting posted so it's a losing battle.
I used to love HN. Lots of interesting stuff, great articles, novel projects. Now it feels like the frontpage is always around 70% LLM-related stuff. And not breakthrough research or projects, just "new Claude version X" and shit like that. Eternal September I guess?
It's not, hence the "don't post AI slop as your comment" posting a few days back that had 1000+ comments.
Currently an unsolved problem - just stealthier on some platforms than others. Trigger the right topic on HN and the bots come out in-force together with humans sloppily copy/pasting LLM content.