Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by andai on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:55PM (#47342627)

I seem to recall a rule about "don't downvote something because you disagree with it", but I can't find anything like that.

Not sure if that's really solvable with rules, though.

My experience with downvotes is that people mostly use it as a "I don't like this" button, which is proxy for "I couldn't think of a counterargument so I don't want to look at it."

(I noted recently that downvotes and counterarguments appear to be mutually exclusive, which I found somewhat amusing.)

Whereas I will often upvote things I personally disagree with, if they are interesting or well reasoned. (This seems objectively better to me, of course, but maybe it's personality thing.)

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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by dang on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:00PM (#47342720)

Oh that one is a classic case of people 'remembering' a rule that never existed - there's a name for this illusion but I forget what it is.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for history...

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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by chrisshroba on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:05PM (#47342778)

> 'remembering' a rule that never existed

Probably the Mandela effect!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect

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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by Kye on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:35PM (#47344051)

This was (maybe still is) part of "reddiquette." Like the guidelines and case law here, it often found its way into subreddit rules and comments from moderators.

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Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver... by dang on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:42PM (#47346181)

To me it's just like how, growing up in Canada, we all assumed we had Miranda rights from American TV.

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