Reddit is the sewer of the internet. Good place for LLMs.

the suits or suit minded people have realised that HN is good for advertising to the kind of demographic that'll give them free labour and is easily swayed by whatever the latest trend is

Why would reddit bots exist? (In)organic advertising, same concept here.

The ones you see flagged are the very obvious bots. What about the more sophisticated ones? How do I know skupig isn't a bot?

Possibly to test reactions to a bot they plan to build a startup around.

I've seen some claim they do it to avoid stylometry or being fingerprinted, or because of social anxiety problems.

Some people just have a compulsive need to optimize everything, and HN's guidelines and tone policing are more easily followed by a bot than a human.

I didn’t say that people weren’t doing it. I was asking this person not to do that here since it sort of sounds like they have plans to

Having to turn on showdead (which I have turned on by default) demonstrates that’s it’s not much of a problem in practice.

I generally disagree, because the level of discourse here has always been very high, curious and intellectual.

For what it's worth the admins here have let the tone of conversation slip a little when it comes to AI, as in there are many people who now openly mock (and worse) the AI zealots and there's no admin coming in and "saving" the metaphorical day anymore. In the not so distant past that kind of behaviour was almost instantly reprimanded, kindergarten-style.