Community-powered blocklist for removing slop from HN comments (opens in new tab)

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3 pointssupriyo-biswas25d ago2 comments

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Coming from someone who filters AI-related keywords — which obviously isn't the best approach, as they now include common nouns such as "agent" — to hide both posts and comments, and who wouldn't shed a tear if they were all moved to a dedicated agi.ycombinator, I think at least your presentation, if not overall approach, might need further polishing? "Raise a pull request with the username in question and link comments as evidence" sounds somewhat inquisitorial, let's put it that way.

supriyo-biswasOP25d ago

Unfortunately this project at its present state is just me coming across such comments and adding them to the list manually. Contributions are mostly a way to get more eyes, but I am aware that some people will misuse it towards that end, and I will review them too to reach that conclusion independently.

I would love to set up a more automated pipeline, but detecting slop over short sequences is in general a difficult problem.

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replooda25d ago

supriyo-biswasOP25d ago

I would love to set up a more automated pipeline, but detecting slop over short sequences is in general a difficult problem.

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