alt Hacker NewsNo, something is funny here. In the previous submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680023) the only (competently) criticizing comment (by jeffbee) was downvoted into oblivion/flagged.
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john_strinlai • today at 2:39 PM
it was flagged because it was unnecessarily rude. nothing "funny" going on (with that comment chain at least).
i would note that it also appears to be wrong, reading laurie's reply, though i am not an expert. rude + wrong is a bad combo.
the next comment by jeffbee is also quite rude, and ignores most of laurie's reply in favor of insulting her instead. i dont think it is a mystery why jeffbee's comments were flagged...
Well he veered off of the technical and into the personal so I'm not surprised it's dead. But yeah something feels weird about this comment section as a whole but I can't quite put my finger on it.
I think rather than AI it reminds me of when (long before AI) a few colleagues would converge on an article to post supportive comments in what felt like an attempt to manipulate the narrative and even at concentrations that I find surprisingly low it would often skew my impression of the tone of the entire comment section in a strange way. I guess you could more generally describe the phenomenon as fan club comments.