Who said I have a theory? I just don’t believe it’s AI since I’ve seen the [dead] comments.
I don’t know what the reason for a mod to mark so many harmless often useful things as [dead] could be.
Sometimes a mod will appear and totally rip a person apart for what I felt was a regular comment. I see power tripping mods here have a mental breakdown over non-issues and ban people and remove all their comments ever posted.
goes to describe a theory. Did your comments in your other HN account get killed for no reason and that is why you are mad and saying the comments are real?
not all killed comments are AI comments but a good amount of them are because they are bots trying to farm karma. We see the ones that doesn't work but many cases just work and we don't notice.
They cannot post links (if you post a link === [dead] comment).
HN used to cite sources. A Lot. It's less now, but your 'problem-solved' proposition would ban new accounts from linking sources on principle, thus degrading their argument to the point of invalidity.
Probably leads to long term site death as fewer new people have the patience for that, and older users age out/die.
Who’s going to keep coming back to post one 40-char comment every two days?
It’s a real problem. Being able to pull in reputation from other sources might help: link established GitHub or (shudder) LinkedIn accounts? Or build the long-fantasized anonymous web of trust reputation thing?