[_nhynes]

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [e-mail] and we'll look at the data.

The site guidelines suggest not accusing posts of being written by bots :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[dang]

When I put the word 'bot' in that guideline I had in mind something quite different from LLMs - it was more about asking people not to post things like "zomg this thread is overrun by $nation bots i guess that's the end of hacker news".

The community response to LLMs (including to comments that read like they were generated by an LLM) is more complex and not necessarily abusive, and I'm inclined to let it play out. So yeah, technically we should probably take the word 'bots' out of that guideline as ozarker's sibling comment suggests.

[ozarker]

Maybe that should be amended