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by sokka_h2otribe 108 days ago
I got halfway through. I'm tired of AI writing sometimes here. <<That's what most calculators get wrong>>. Not, that's $11, it's NOT very significant.

AI slop ATM seems to indicate heavy importance on all your sentences, but not all of your sentences are that important. It makes it harder for me to skim personally, and ultimately, it's harder to edit because it "sounds" ok as it is (even when it's not.)

But, in my experience, the AI writing slop [negative experience] is everywhere here.

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In the general case beyond this post specifically, drop an email to the mods when a submission is particularly badly written (and note why: if it seems AI-generated, if it sees manipulative emphasis on marketing words, if it’s low-content rabble-rousing like most GitHub issues links, etc); they seem to care about writing quality, and can take more direct action than we can as users.
Fair point. I've stripped the 'filler' and updated the post to focus strictly on the raw math like that $1.077 Georgia tax feedback loop. Hopefully the technical data is more useful to the community than my initial draft.
Good call. It’s easy to let the writing get clinical when the math is this dry, but I hear you on the skim-ability. I’ve updated the post to lead with the actual findings rather than the 'important-sounding' filler.