[halayli]

I feel HN comments have been getting hijacked for a long time now by LLM agents. Always so early, very positive, and hard to spot. Some replaced em-dash with --, some replace them with a single dash, some remove them all together. I wonder how much time it is taking from @dang and other moderators helping to maintain this community.

[dang]

Can you mention some specific examples? If you don't want to post them here, emailing [e-mail] would be good.

We recently promoted the no-generated-comments rule from case law [1] to the site guidelines [2], and we're banning accounts that break it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

[halayli]

I will start sharing them moving forward. I've had several parent threads deleted in the past(rightfully so) because it turned out I was responding to AI. Thank you for staying on top of this.