Comment by Imustaskforhelp
13 hours ago
Yes! I genuinely don't understand the reason why this got flagged.
I also uploaded this news to hackernews (before discovering that this also existed) and the post I did wasn't flagged (atleast not right now)
I sincerely hope that healthy disucssions can take place in Hackernews and such articles shouldn't be flagged as they are important.
Edit: my post got flagged as well WHILE I WAS WRITING THIS COMMENT THIS IS CRAZY
The site is getting inundated with bots. For the past few months everytime I realize some poster I’m replying to is looping in replies or having gaping holes in logic, I check their account and it’s been made in the past few months and the early interactions it had were with other accounts made in the same pattern.
Then you also see shit like these posts that touch on the admin in a negative light getting insta flagged and nuked off the front page.
Don’t put blinders on. The problem isn’t new accounts (who can’t even flag). This community has always been subtly in favor of exactly this kind of suppression. Consider the fact that posting anything even slightly critical of YC on the YC subreddit gets one instantly shadowbanned. Then consider that this very community is modded by the same ilk of people.
What would you expect? The same kind of censorship, right? This is by design. The design can obviously be changed (e.g. don’t let only echochambery high karma accounts vouch for stuff).
Not gonna lie, you’re a new account and you ignored the majority of my comment, binning you in the “likely a bot” box as well
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Someone accused me of being a bot and called me a clanker when we are talking about this.
I am extremely annoyed at hackernews right now
wtf is happening. someone said nice try clanker bcause of my username like (wtf/)
This community is feeling more hostile and less trustworthy I am sorry to say that
Well see, now based on my heuristics I don't think youre here in great faith/a real person either
1) your account was made post LLM access being widespread
2) you made this claim
> I am extremely annoyed at hackernews right now
> wtf is happening. someone said nice try clanker bcause of my username like (wtf/)
and when I go back through your comment history trying to find when that occurred, I got to over 8 days ago and no one ever used the word "clanker" in response to you.
The signal to noise ratio is at an all time low because of LLMs. If you are a real person, I guess that sucks, but I have a difficult time believing anything you say now