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by mindcrime 104 days ago
> comments are filled with random LLM bots

Let's say you're right. What good is going to come from posting a comment calling attention to that? As far as I can tell, that's just more noise masking whatever signal is present in the conversation.

The guidelines also say:

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

I would think "accusations of comments being authored by an LLM" would fall into this regime. Probably better to just email the mods, than posting a comment that nobody wants to read, and which is not guaranteed to be seen or acted on by the mods.

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> What good is going to come from posting a comment calling attention to that?

So that dang and other people can actually come up with a solution to this?

It's only downhill from here if people don't act now..

And it might be too late if they don't

> So that dang and other people can actually come up with a solution to this?

But posting comments is not the recommended way to get their attention. Just email them as mentioned above.