Comment by mouse_
5 months ago
As long as it's not apparently being done by a bot, who cares?
This is effectively an advertising website.
5 months ago
As long as it's not apparently being done by a bot, who cares?
This is effectively an advertising website.
This is not primarily an advertising site. See guidelines:
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
> It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time
Yes. I was responding specifically to this claim:
> This is effectively an advertising website.
Which remains untrue even if you're allowed to post your own stuff from time to time.
Most of the time, the top post of a Show HN is someone else talking about their own project or something off-topic from the Show HN.
Self-promotion on HN is constant.
> not apparently being done by a bot
LLMs will make this very hard to detect, very soon if not already.