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ssl-3yesterday at 7:43 AM1 replyview on HN

People were responding with period-correct, insipid “wow beautiful <emojis>” replies for decades before we had bots to do it.

It was noise when it was only people; it's still just noise when it also includes bots.


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Gigachadyesterday at 9:48 AM

What makes it noise is less the actual comment itself. If I showed someone a piece of art in person and they said this to me, it would be a genuine response. What makes this particular instance noise is it reeks of mass automated messaging with no thought behind it. These comments are generic because they aren't people commenting on the thing they saw, they are just templates being spammed out on mass so they make them generic to fit any context.

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