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by dredmorbius 18 days ago
There are multiple facets to the problem. Technical site performance is a very small part of those.

The disruption, manipulation, and most of all erosion of trust which bad-faith actors create (AI or otherwise) are the most serious issues in my experience. The concept of "evaporative cooling", in which a platform starting to go bad sees an accelerated departure of well-intentioned, high-value participants.

See the original article from 2010: <https://web.archive.org/web/20101012105003/https://blog.bumb...> (HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1777665>).

And an interesting follow-up, 2015: <https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporativ...> (HN discussion, from 2025: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42597962>).