[goodmythical]

I saw the recent "would a slop button be useful in addition to flags?" and my immediate response was "only if I can also flag people whining about slop.

Adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.

[shermantanktop]

I've whined about it. I try not to. Maybe I'm being a nosy bystander, but here's what I see:

- User X posts some very AI-ish comment: "It's not X --- it's Y, and the reason is important...blah blah"

- User Y responds, taking the original at face value, and disagreeing or otherwise putting time into parsing the ideas in User X's post.

- Me, thinking: User Y is being duped, wasting their time, arguing with a ghost, and otherwise being taken for a ride

That's not my problem, it's User Y's, and they may have knowingly decided to respond even though User X is posting AI slop.

But a forum where that happens a lot doesn't seem like a good place.

[LastTrain]

If slop adds nothing then discussing what is and isn’t slop and how to get rid of it does add something.