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Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by jrflowers on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:31PM (#45268375)
> if we wanted to bot this you wouldn't think it was bots lol

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that

Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by slater on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:04PM (#45271147)
"if i really wanted to astro-turf this, i'd make it so you wouldn't be able to tell" ...
Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by jrflowers on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:49AM (#45273050)
I was able to parse the sentence. I was asking andyprevalsky if they could personally expand on that boast. Like for example if somebody accused me of being a bot puppeteer I would say something like “what” or “I don’t know how to do that”. I wouldn’t outright state that I’m excellent at furtively making bots on this website because that’s not a skill or interest that I have.

I suppose I could have phrased that “why should I believe you” but I feel like andyprevalsky would have answered that if they answered the question I posted.

Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by andyprevalsky on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @10:53AM (#45276577)
I have no interest in botting this site, I thought that was implied from b4… HN doesn’t deserve that
Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by jrflowers on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:03PM (#45281931)
So the answer is “No”, you can not elaborate on your brag about being able to make undetectable bots on this site?