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Please keep in mind that such a use is against the Guidelines[0] and will be downvoted and flagged rather quickly.

Since 2023 I always check the creation date of a user before I click on any link in their comment.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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>will be downvoted and flagged rather quickly.

You wish. It is becoming harder every day to find genuine comments or technical insights at the top of HN sections instead of blind love/hate for trendy topics.


It's turtles all the way down.

Even among the "genuine" comments most of them are just people spewing things because the monkey brain has determined that it likes it when the number in the top right goes up and has figured out what kind of things to spew to make it go up (dare I say encouraging this state of affairs is the reason some platforms choose to keep score in such a manner).

Does it really matter whether you're reading something written by an AI shill, a human shill or a human (or AI) who's repeating the shillery? You're being shilled at all the same.




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