Post #2606342

2026-05-16 13:22 UTC

There’s a… robust debate about LLM slop submissions on everyone’s favorite boiled crustacean site. First shot fired: a promptfondler suggest suppressing all comments pointing out that a submission reeks of slop by flagging them as “off-topic” [1] “This is written by an LLM” comments should be flagged as off-topic (80 net upvotes, 139 comments) Riposte: a suggestion that posing LLM generated content should be a bannable offence: LLM generated submissions should be disallowed (274 net upvotes, 108 comments) So far it looks as if the anti-slop forces have opinion on their side. [1] short explanation of how flagging of comments work on lobste.rs - it’s sort of a downvote, but the flagger has to chose from a list of reasons. If a commenter accrues enough flags they’ll get a red warning banner, and might possibly be banned as disruptive.

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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-05-16 18:55

OK here’s a followup, which I’m putting out here as there’s probably a higher proportion of neurodivergent people here than in other fora I frequent A commenter on lobste.rs states that being anti-LLM is effectively being against neurodivergent individuals, because many such individuals express themselves in prose in a way that’s indistinguishable from LLM output. Is this a widespread viewpoint? lobste.rs/…/this_is_written_by_llm_comments_shoul…

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@corbin@awful.systems 2026-05-18 19:13

A prominent cloud engineer had a sizeable subthread where they were skeptical about the entire idea of Quality as something that humans can discern and rank. Through what I presume was a nat 20, I threw a philosophy book at them and they appear to have responded by deleting the worst of their comments, particularly the ones where he admits to quoting chatbots, and deactivating their account. This may be the first time that quoting Pirsig has won an argument, TBH. This was after a week’s vacation caused by a thread that is still too hot to deeplink, where I had multiple comments removed by mods and still won the argument. I am currently once again the second-most-flagged user with like 25 flags in the last month. “The things I do for love.”

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