HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods, and contributions because of significantly more low value/high noise submissions and comments. As are many community sites (forums, advice, professional assistance).
Sites that don't ban and remove AI will become entirely AI, if that's your thing there's plenty of them around, why does HN have to morph into that? It resisted morphing into a self-promotion site (eg. ProductHunt, GumRoad), a crypto site, a security-vulnerability site (some exceptions), a political battleground (struggling), a blog repost site (some exceptions), a version release site, an unofficial big-tech support site.
> HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods
I can still remember when they hired dang and he's still around, I see people posting I recognize from 18 years ago when I first started reading this site...
The youngest "top ten" account is from 2020, most of them are from 15-20 years ago. Two of the top ten have not posted for months, seven have posted today.
At some point it will become untenable to resist AI posts/comments especially from an accessibility point of view.
In fact, it might become legally required for web sites to accept AI writing in the near future just as it is for web sites to provide accessibility accommodations.
Strange assumption. Why would it want to?
HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods, and contributions because of significantly more low value/high noise submissions and comments. As are many community sites (forums, advice, professional assistance).
Sites that don't ban and remove AI will become entirely AI, if that's your thing there's plenty of them around, why does HN have to morph into that? It resisted morphing into a self-promotion site (eg. ProductHunt, GumRoad), a crypto site, a security-vulnerability site (some exceptions), a political battleground (struggling), a blog repost site (some exceptions), a version release site, an unofficial big-tech support site.
> HN is already struggling with losing valued members, mods
I can still remember when they hired dang and he's still around, I see people posting I recognize from 18 years ago when I first started reading this site...
https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
The youngest "top ten" account is from 2020, most of them are from 15-20 years ago. Two of the top ten have not posted for months, seven have posted today.
At some point it will become untenable to resist AI posts/comments especially from an accessibility point of view.
In fact, it might become legally required for web sites to accept AI writing in the near future just as it is for web sites to provide accessibility accommodations.
Why post at all if you don’t consider it important enough to spend time writing yourself?
Maybe you would like the post to be written better than what you are capable of doing without AI?