Please do so. And, forgive me if I speak heresy, but there has to be more proof of work (friction) to create accounts. I was shocked at how easy it is for something like chatgpt atlas to create new accounts on the fly.

Agree, HN can't be immune to what happens in the programming world. Would be great though if we can have a way to mute or hide accounts. This way each HN user will be able to clean his own feed of articles.

A site can't easily be immune to macro trends in authentic dicussion, but it can be significantly immune to inauthentic uses.

I was thinking of setting up a system to highlight sock-puppeters and other consistent-rule-violating accounts, as a 'fun project' that might improve the HN experience. But it strikes me that the HN staff probably already does something like this, they may not welcome a side-loaded project of this sort, and it would require some automated crawling of HN (which again may be unwelcomed). Finally, I don't actually have experience in this area. Is this something that would be welcomed, or unwanted?

My initial thought is to set up a devoted account like "sock_puppet_detector", and using the infrastructure from https://hackersmacker.org/, add any likely sock-puppets as 'foes'.

That's sad there have been some really neat things shared that way but you gotta do what ya gotta do.

Why not let the users choose at settings? like "Show dead" ?

For all accounts or just new ones?

Minimum karma perhaps?

It's easy for people to game but it's at least one more effort-based hurdle.

Here's an idea: allow downvotes for green posts with published guidelines on when downvoting is and is not appropriate. We can collectively filter out the pure spam efficiently to make it less worthwhile to post.

I welcome this. Lots of AI slop has been thrown on to this site and the drawbridge needs to be eventually raised a little.

Can't allow low-quality posting from new accounts here but thank you for listening to the concerns.

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