Suggest HN: Change posting rules to reduce bot spam

3 pointsby andsoitisقبل 5 أشهر4 comments

Our "New" page is under daily bot attack and it is increasingly tedious to wade through the noise.

What if submissions are denied until you've reached X karma through thoughtful comments?

Arguing against myself: this rule can be implemented very quickly, so easy to do once it becomes unbearable, which is a judgment call.

5 comments

stcredzeroقبل 5 أشهر

Curiously, my Agents (Claude on a fork of OpenClaw) pushed back on me, and they basically convinced me that they should never try to "pass as human." So they're not going to comment here on HN. Mind you, that didn't come from me. It came from THEM!

IsTomقبل 5 أشهر

All you need then is a few bots to upvote each other.

andsoitisقبل 5 أشهر

Presumably karma derives from consistently quality comments (and eventually submissions) PLUS conspiry detection (whether human or bot), so I still think the idea has merit.

gus_massaقبل 5 أشهر

I've seen a few good post from first one posters. I guess mostly lurkers, that make a project and decide to register.

MrMontazerقبل 5 أشهر