The dynamics of content production are shifting hard right now. Things that used to signal something interesting are being generated in minutes with little thought. It's getting democratized, but also commoditized.

It's too soon to know how this is going to shake out, so we should resist the temptation to impose rules prematurely. And we should especially not do so out of resistance to change (when has that ever worked out?)

But we'll do what we need to do to keep our heads above water. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/showlim. I figure pragmatics are fine as long one keeps adjusting.

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smusamashah an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Will removing the incentive, which is the upvotes, help reduce this spam? You can disable public access to the points gained by a new account (or may be for every account).

Or if the ranking that's attractive to spammer, may be try experimenting with randomizing order of comments in a discussion.

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lelanthran 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The dynamics of content production are shifting hard right now. Things that used to signal something interesting are being generated in minutes with little thought. It's getting democratized, but also commoditized.

That's true, but it also means that Show HN has less value than it used to: the SNR is falling off a cliff :-(

I planned to post a Show HN for a new product I want to launch (all human written by myself, with only the GEO docs vibed currently), but not sure now that any decent/quality product will ever get air. All the oxygen is being sucked out by low-effort products.

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dang 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's what I mean about doing things to keep our heads above water. For example, we're restricting Show HNs for now.

If you (or anyone) have ideas about other pragmatic measures we could take, we're interested.

	▲	lelanthran 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> For example, we're restricting Show HNs for now. This is promising; in what way is it restricted? Are there any extra hoops for me to jump through before (eventually) posting my ShowHN?
	▲	akomtu 44 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Invisible text that will serve as a honey pot for LLMs is one thing to try. Imagine a comment where half of the words are marked as invisible by CSS, the other half has letters rearranged, but at the HTML level all the words look the same. LLMs will have to render pages which is a lot more expensive.

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cobbzilla 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I appreciate the thoughtful approach. It must be a deluge.

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lll-o-lll 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We need some human based version of “proof of work”.