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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by zahlman on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:14PM (#47341999)
I suppose I should put my comment here instead of at top level.

Exactly when was this point added? It seems somehow not new, but on the other hand it was missing from an archive.today snapshot I found from last July. (I cannot get archive.org to give me anything useful here.)

Edit:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

> If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Perhaps these points (and the thing about trivial annoyances, etc.) should be rolled up into a general "please don't post meta commentary outside of explicit site meta discussion"?

Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by dang on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:49PM (#47346221)
Do you mean when did we add "please don't post generated comments" to the guidelines? A couple days ago IIRC.
Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by zahlman on Friday March 13, 2026 @03:08PM (#47368340)
I did mean that, and thanks.