[devonkelley]

@tomhow emailing to verify that I am real, the comments on my post are not bots and I can verify whatever you need me to. Annoying to be flagged when I am just new here and trying to be part of the community.

[deaux]

Never said you're a bot or that they're not real people. They're mostly people you know or your sockpuppets. Most people who do this are real people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46742799

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290617

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487533

None of these are "bots".

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lighthouse1212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720287

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Phil_BoaM

All "real people", all posting multiple LLM generated comments.

[devonkelley]

I wanted to come back here and say that I realize I am actually the asshole in this situation. I didn't read the rules (I struggle with rules), before posting on HN. I get why you flagged me on this, and understand why the rules are in place to keep HN 100% genuine.

[devonkelley]

“Sock puppets” are my own friends coming to try to support my post. Idk if they are using LLMs, I can’t really control that.

I’m not here to spam HN with AI slop. Is that the point you’re concerned about here?

Totally get it, community falls to shit if it becomes a bunch of slop. I like HN because people think and make genuine intelligent comments.

Not here to ruin the community just genuinely new and recruited friends to support my launch post.