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yorwbatoday at 4:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

If it says [flagged], a human pressed the "flag" button. Most likely because OP is commenting too much.


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bjournetoday at 7:53 PM

Nope. Many comments from green accounts get flagged and then auto-killed unless vouched for.

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CamperBob2today at 4:44 PM

I don't believe that's the case. HN is running some kind of automated slop detector that classifies any suspected LLM output as "slop" even if it's entirely in-context for the conversation (e.g., a conversation about LLM output.) The comment gets autoflagged the moment it's posted. This has been the case for a while now, I've run afoul of it myself.

It sucks, and I can only imagine they implemented it because they felt they had no other option to deal with the onslaught of bots that's appeared lately.

One thing they could do to improve the situation is to weight vouching heavily by karma. I have plenty of karma but I don't think I've ever successfully pulled a comment out of the [dead] state by vouching for it. Legitimate comments that get flagged by mistake tend to stay that way for the duration of the discussion.

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