[i_think_so]

Just on HN alone I think I've seen roughly 3948538902748750897520938 mentions of emdashes when others were complaining about slop in the past 2 months. It might as well be the unofficial slop logo. Folks are treating it like a dead giveaway.

I feel like a school friend of mine has been taken from me.

[peyton]

It’s just people who don’t read books outing themselves. Ignore.

[dwedge]

Even bookz aee ruined for me now. I was reading careless people and hate all the emdashes even though in a book it's just normal

[twoodfin]

The real dead giveaway is that the writing is bad.

[DANmode]

Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921359

and the comments above it