The author provides evidence to the contrary and the HNers won't even engage with it instead just talking about the writing of the article in classic HN bikeshedding fashion.

How about after that we talk about the formatting of the website and the colors?

This site is really going down hill

Where is the accountability for your own opinions?

Are you guys only upvoting things that confirm your existing gripes?

It would be preferable if someone would seed a better discussion by engaging with the article's claims/observations.

Is that the kind of low effort posts we want around here? Just a link to a github comment of a screenshot?

You're complicit here in fueling the harassment of an open source project

Even if you're right, though, you shouldn't be posting comments that break the site guidelines.

People opening issues just to rant against an open source project is acceptable content for HN?

How is that even allowed in the first place without getting flagged/removed?

And every time that happens the project gets brigaded from HN users

Please follow the site guidelines from now on.

How does low effort rage-bait spark curiosity?

The comment to upvote ratio clearly shows it’s inflammatory

> After posting this on Hacker News and recieving almost no substantive input, discussion, or response on the actual content of the article, I decided to rewrite all of the prose in my own voice.

I've therefore turned off the flags and hopefully people can actually now discuss the claims/findings being reported.

Soo... it didn't just sound like genai but was genai?

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Huh. From the article:

> If anyone complains about my verbosity or sentence structure — as they usually do, which is the reason I originally let the AI write the prose, among other reasons obsoleted by templating — they can go fuck themselves.

This is kinda sad, honestly. But also should show the author that doing what people try to bully you into doing will not stop them from bullying you.

Just stick with your unique voice man. If people don't want to read that that's fine. They do not have to. You're fine

.. what are those em-dashes doing there though?

I agree that it will be interesting to see how this develops going forward. One can imagine wildly varying scenarios.

Why should I care? If it's a good thought, chances are it appears without slop around it. If it doesn't re-appear, life will still go on regardless.

No need to shift through noise just to avoid FOMO.

You're literally doing exactly the bullying I was trying to avoid, even while denouncing it. I like em-dashes. I have AuDHD, and they help me represent how I think.

Uhm, no. Really just no. And, frankly, I find it shameful that you'd throw such an accusation at me.

But I guess we can stop here.

Idk man. The internet can be a bit too much sometimes. I truly get that, but this was too much from your side.

Wish you all the best.

If someone gives them shit about their writing, that's on the critic for being shitty. If they use AI to write, that's on them for being fake. But, to write online at all requires being ready to have people be shitty to you and ideally not reacting in a way that makes the situation worse. Sounds like they need work on that part.

Anyway it is basically always possible for someone to find something legitimately bad about anything a person does. The question is, how much of an issue is that? Not much actually. So you have flaws. Fine, just be flawed. It had no affect on your life beyond your reaction to the attack. And putting aside that reaction is a prerequisite for learning anything useful (or discerning that there is nothing to learn) from the experience.

Good people will trust good intentions through the flaws, while shitty people will write off your work and your intentions because of the flaws (and try to make sure you feel bad about it in the process). But it's always they're too weak to express disagreement maturely, or sometimes because they're bitter and threatened by your good intentions directly. Either way, it's their flaw, not yours.

"No these are fine, now look over there!! <lotsoftext>"

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

"Claude, rewrite all of the prose in my own voice."

The funny part is that it probably works.