The comment reads like an LLM summary. And we don’t typically get an OP summary on a new post. Just post it and let people read it.

HN appears to encourage it, because it shows a text box which becomes a top level comment when you submit, although it isn't obvious that will happen.

Huh, that definitely explains it. I wonder how many people know that. In that case it's particularly unfortunate to downvote the OP simply for filling a field in the submission form! Sigh… I guess it's another case of LLMs having made the world a little worse for everybody.

I don’t think it’s because the comment was submitted. I think it’s because it reads like LLM output.

Personally, I’ve only ever provided a summary if I felt the headline wasn’t clear enough.

Yeah, but before LLMs we didn't have "reads like LLM output" as a downvote reason. In 2022 nobody would've had qualms with the phrasing of the comment.

That box doesn't become a comment, does it? It goes into the description that shows under the link.

That's perfectly ok, they're using HN almost exclusively for promotion. See comment/submission history.

But the articles are well-researched, very high quality (the illustrations in particular are incredible), and in every way prime HN material, and there's no money involved as far as I can see. I definitely don't have any qualms about self-promotion of this sort of stuff.

Thanks for pointing this out! I had no idea something like this would happen by filling in a comment box in the original post window.

I only realized they weren't a bot when i went to look at the other comment history.