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Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting by bryanlarsen on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:21PM (#47301009)
It's one thing to have an AI-label. It's another to completely derail a conversation with a likely false AI accusation.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122272

You have to scroll a few pages before the actual article is discussed.

"This was LLM generated" is likely to float to the top of an article. That's where the best comments about the article deserve to go, not an off topic comment. An AI label should be much less obtrusive.

Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting by zahlman on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:16PM (#47302184)
> You have to scroll a few pages before the actual article is discussed.

Or you could collapse the one thread containing those comments.

Re:Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting by sowbug on Sunday March 08, 2026 @04:37PM (#47301171)
Join me and downvote them relentlessly.