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0 pointscodetrotter1y ago0 comments

It looks like OP filled out the text area alongside with the URL when submitting the post.

HN takes that text and turns it into a comment. I’ve seen it happen before.

The unfortunate outcome of that IMO is that sometimes text that makes sense as a description of a submission feels a bit out of place as a comment due to how they are worded. And these comments sometimes then end up getting downvoted.

I wouldn’t be completely sure it was not human written. Even though it feels a bit weird to read it as a comment.

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xfeeefeee1y ago

> It looks like OP filled out the text area alongside with the URL when submitting the post. HN takes that text and turns it into a comment.

Yeah, this is exactly what happened, but I decided to keep it rather than delete and filled it out more with the synopsis from the repo.

Looking back at it, it really does look like an AI bulleted summary. I probably should have noted that the last part was indeed a quotation.

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xfeeefeee1y ago

> It looks like OP filled out the text area alongside with the URL when submitting the post. HN takes that text and turns it into a comment.

Yeah, this is exactly what happened, but I decided to keep it rather than delete and filled it out more with the synopsis from the repo.

Looking back at it, it really does look like an AI bulleted summary. I probably should have noted that the last part was indeed a quotation.

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