Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
by statements on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:57PM
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Conflicted as to whether I should be more offended at the accusation of using AI to 'filter' my article or because my writing reads as 'templated and mechanical'
There is enough here to have a micro existential crisis.
https://xkcd.com/3126/
People's bot detectors are defective, so if you write at all, you're going to get accused of it at some point. It's not annoying, it's rude – and you're absolutely right to be off put by it. If the preceding sentence gave someone a conniption, good! I wrote it with my human brain, I'll have you know! Maybe we could all focus on what's being said and not who or what is saying it.
Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
by warkdarrior on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:50PM
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> The article has mechanically correct prose; that's not the same as well-written, and that's the topic of the article itself.
There is no requirement that an article's writing style aligns with the article's topic. Substance over style and all that.
> I started noticing patterns. The quality wasn't there. The descriptions had a templated, mechanical feel. And something subtler was missing: the excitement.
The article has mechanically correct prose; that's not the same as well-written, and that's the topic of the article itself.