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arjieyesterday at 7:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

Human slop is realistically just as bad. In a strange twist, human commentary on the Internet is asymptotically approaching an older LLM. Trite cliches, repetitive tropes, and tribal affiliation signals dominate conversation.

I have turned to blunt instruments: blocking individuals on their first cliche banner-wave. It has substantially improved comment quality but I still suffer from the problem that I don’t block stories entirely.


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Karrot_Kreamyesterday at 10:32 PM

You've written about this before so I'm curious how effective you find it? Did you try a blocklist on top of doing things like muting words? Btw I enjoy your content on this site quite a bit.

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dvhyesterday at 9:04 PM

Who's reading this comment in 2026?

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BoneShardtoday at 4:20 AM

Quora became human-slop-infested trash before it was trendy.