Human slop is realistically just as bad. In a strange twist, human commentary on the Internet is asymptotically approaching an older LLM. Trite cliches, repetitive tropes, and tribal affiliation signals dominate conversation.
I have turned to blunt instruments: blocking individuals on their first cliche banner-wave. It has substantially improved comment quality but I still suffer from the problem that I don’t block stories entirely.
You've written about this before so I'm curious how effective you find it? Did you try a blocklist on top of doing things like muting words? Btw I enjoy your content on this site quite a bit.
Thank you. Those are kind words! I've mostly been pretty happy about the lists I've curated blocking users. I don't use words because I'm sure I'll clbuttic/scunthorpe my way into missing something and so on. The current problem I have is that on my iPhone, I use Chrome and it doesn't have extensions so I have to view everyone. I'd much rather view people I like, so I'm going to have to make an iOS app.
Really enjoyed https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis
That spike in users near the end is really something!
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Quora became human-slop-infested trash before it was trendy.