I can only speak for myself, being a maintainer of a project in the crypto space. We are getting spammed with AI slop and also scam comments (though this lessened for some reason).
My usual experience is this:
1. We open an issue that needs to be fixed
2. slop bots create multiple slop PRs
3. slop bots spam comments on the issues, pointing to their slop PRs
The only general methods for preventing this are are restricting PR's (not comments, I believe) to contributors - which is a hassle to maintain, and restricting to older accounts - which doesn't work because the bot accounts are not newly created.
Then we need to perform _way too many_ just to get rid of the slop:
- navigate multiple pages and confirmations to ban the account from our org
- open each PR manually
- close it manually
This takes at least 15 clicks and is made _so much worse_ by how slooooooooow the UI is. Every click takes 2 seconds!!! How can "ban this account and delete everything it ever did" be more than a max of 2 clicks?
What we really need is a "locked down mode" where every interaction (PR, issue, comment) with the repo that isn't from maintainers or specifically whitelisted people goes into a moderation queue. Maintainers can confirm or deny the action using a single click (which does not take 2 fucking seconds to load).
I would have expected better of HN. I agree that wealth and power accumulation are a problem. But the conclusion obviously isn't to have everyone forcibly DIE. If anything, this is an argument to make longevity more accessible.
The article is heavily biased against the evil tech billionaires. So much so, that it has to outright lie about Bryan Johnson? His "proprietary longevity routine" is actually fully public. The most important parts aren't some expensive surgeries but 1) regular sleep 2) healthy food 3) exercise.
Either you want everyone to live as long as possible, or you want people to die. And if the tech elites scare you that much, remember that longevity protocols protect against death by aging, _not_ assassinations.
My usual experience is this:
1. We open an issue that needs to be fixed 2. slop bots create multiple slop PRs 3. slop bots spam comments on the issues, pointing to their slop PRs
The only general methods for preventing this are are restricting PR's (not comments, I believe) to contributors - which is a hassle to maintain, and restricting to older accounts - which doesn't work because the bot accounts are not newly created.
Then we need to perform _way too many_ just to get rid of the slop: - navigate multiple pages and confirmations to ban the account from our org - open each PR manually - close it manually
This takes at least 15 clicks and is made _so much worse_ by how slooooooooow the UI is. Every click takes 2 seconds!!! How can "ban this account and delete everything it ever did" be more than a max of 2 clicks?
What we really need is a "locked down mode" where every interaction (PR, issue, comment) with the repo that isn't from maintainers or specifically whitelisted people goes into a moderation queue. Maintainers can confirm or deny the action using a single click (which does not take 2 fucking seconds to load).