Re:Show HN: Weaviate – Build your own generative health sear...
by etiennedi on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @06:22PM
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Thanks, appreciate your perspective. This is much more insightful than just "affiliated==botnet". I agree that this can be a huge positive and - at least for me - that was the motivation for wanting to be active in the comments; to see if there are any challenging questions, feedback, etc.
As a HN user, I often go straight to the comments and only look at the submission if there's an interesting discussion there. I can totally see how spammy-looking comments with an undisclosed affiliation can have the exact opposite effect.
(affiliated with Weaviate)
Re:Show HN: Weaviate – Build your own generative health sear...
by nostrebored on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:04PM
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Nobody said affiliated equals botnet. You have accounts which go into discussions about Weaviate and write low quality comments that are essentially spam. They have no other real HN history.
Do you not think that the comments in here could’ve been generated by bots?
Stop it.
I think you can make a perfectly logical and reasonable argument about why it should be fine, but in the end it doesn't matter. It will backfire because it's been abused to the nth degree in the past and now people's antennae are up.
Transparency around affiliation is key. If you're commenting something of substance, then people will appreciate it and value your comment. If you're not adding anything substantive, then it's best not to comment at all.