Ask HN: What can we do about explosion of self promotion in HN comments

6•dominotw•1h ago

Every comment thread has turned into this

> Thoughts about X

>> X is great but checkout my shitty vibecoded project on github

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JohnFen•1h ago

Downvote and move on

pwg•1h ago

Downvote and/or flag and move along.

dominotw•1h ago

But I've already read the comment at that point. I dont want to read these bait and switch comments.

mtmail•1h ago

It's a team effort, you flag some, I flag some.

dominotw•1h ago

unfortunately flag button is somewhat hidden on hn so most ppl dont go through that extra step for this to be effective

smt88•1h ago

I see more of these comments now but it's not enough that it's bothered me. I wonder why our experiences differ.

jjgreen•1h ago

Set RoboDogs on the swine. But a RoboDog needs a hostile and violent OS, checkout this shitty project I vibecoded on GitHub ....

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