Now let’s check the HN comments… c’mon, I just want popcorn, and seeing that cesspool of braindead trash raging is amusing🍿

[People wanting actually meaningful content might want to skip my comment here.]

[A] What is the “this platform” mentioned three times in the post? It reads like it was intended to be posted on Twitter, or someone’s Mastodon, or Tumblr, or something, instead of on that absurdpirate.com domain (which doesn’t look like a “platform” to me). // Whatever “this platform” is, it’s apparently run by someone named Herman.

[B] I believe the Herman in question is the owner/operator of the blog hosting provider that this blog is on[1]. // (I was also very confused by this, until I saw the footer and clicked on it.)

[C] Thank you, I didn’t understand this either. // So am I right to take away from this that the blog is complaining about Bear Blog (about which I know nothing, is it just hosting, a framework, or does it have a front page like HN somewhere?) hosting too many posts that are optimized for HN? It’s not a complain about HN itself, which by implication cannot be saved? // Edit: as pointed out in another post, they actually do have an aggregation page which is pretty cool: https://bearblog.dev/discover/ TBD how correlated it is with HN

A: “please spoonfeed me, I lack basic reading comprehension, so I’m unable to check info by myself.”
C: “me too! please spoonfeed me too! Reading is haaaaard!”

This post has zero nutritional value.

Kind of hilarious to see someone complaining a post adds nothing… in Hacker News. C’mon.

I thought this might be about accounts that seem to only post AI generated comments. But it’s about “AI glazing” posts. There’s really not that many of those types of posts appearing.

“This post might be about the Sun being warm. But ackshyually, it’s about the Sun being really hot. But ackshyually, there’s really not much heat in the Sun.”

> Herman // Who or what is that?

Either this user, or the top user, can’t be arsed to check other replies before asking the same shit.

This would be understandable here in the Fediverse due to federation woes. In HN though? Nope.

Is it possible that the fairly-specific term “slop” has ALREADY been co-opted to mean “LLM-generated context which I don’t like”?!? // Because personally I’M tired of folks using that word inappropriately.

“Fairly specific term «slop»”? Come on. Stop being a bloody liar.

The reason for the bullshit becomes rather obvious when you read the rest, though: misleading with a question.

I’m not even sure what the author is complaining about, specifically. Weird post.

Yet another in the “please spoonfeed me basic reading comprehension!” gang!

It’s always like this in HN. “I dun unrurrstand, I is so confusion…”

Did you miss the Cryptocurrency slop? Or the social graph slop?

Decent comment. That’s why it’s near the bottom, greyed out: downvotes.

[A] Yeah, well, I’m tired of luddites like OP. If you want to stick your head in the sand and persuade yourself that the tsunami isn’t already upon us, go do it in a private Discord channel instead of whining publicly.

[B] there is nuance to the whole situation […]

A: Okay, this one deserves to be at the bottom. Assumptive piece of shit (a type of liar, except lacking the dignity of a proper liar) oversimplifying a complex matter (attitude towards AI) into a false dichotomy.

TL;DR to B is an unoffensive way to say what I just said.