They should also remove Copilot code reviews from being counted as metrics in a PR.

I've seen some projects that use it and you open the PR page to be greeted by every PR having 3-20 comments but when you goto the actual PR, there's no one except the contributor with a bunch of Copilot feedback.

It gives a false message that the PR is resonating with folks and has real activity. I wonder if GitHub did this on purpose to make engagement seem higher than it really is.

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breakpointalpha 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots.

I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc.

Clankers can keep their own counts.

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duxup 2 days ago | parent [-]

Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast.

It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.

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toraway 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged.

Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt.

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georgel 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.

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		Reddit has always been fake, but it used to be a real person performing creative writing pretending to be a true story. Now it's spammed out slop at scale.

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spike021 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Where I work that many comments could be taken as a bad thing: "i've seen too many comments finding issues or nitpicks with your PR, why aren't you doing a better job before submitting it for review??"

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mohamedabdallah 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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