Comment by jascha_eng
6 hours ago
@dang this accounts comments smell like LLM slop. They are mostly on topic and its more claude than chatgpt but it's slop nontheless.
is telling
didn't win... It won ...
Look at their other comments they are also fishy
I know you guys don't want us to call it out because of negativity. But there needs to be awareness in the community, this is the top comment somehow right now. It feels like it happens every other thread. Please do something more rigorous than manually deleting accounts.
Note I might be wrong on this one but it's just extremely annoying that I even have to consider if I am being manipulated by an AI while reading HN comments.
If I want to read AI stuff I go to Clawdbook or OpenAIs Sora app.
Sure, and we've banned the account, but please email us with these hn@ycombinator.com. @mentions don't work on HN; I only saw it because I was looking through the thread. We're also asking people not to make these accusations publicly, partly because they take longer for us to see than an email, and also because a false accusation is more harmful than a valid accusation is beneficial.
Okay fair about the mentions but I don't that email is a good process:
1. It puts more effort on me as a user to report the spam via email because I have to open my email, compose one by hand and add the reasoning. The offending user in comparison probably automatically spams. Can't we have a button at least?
2. It doesn't make the community aware of the ongoing issue. Other community members could be primed that currently they need to read comments more critically. At the moment that seems like the only detection that somewhat works but if I silently send an email instead of commenting here it doesn't inform anyone else of my suspicion.