> If you have ideas for how to fix this please do suggest them.

Raise the overall minimum required karma to 1100 such that any user with <1100 karma:

- Is throttled for 1 comment every 2 days.

- When commenting they can comment with a maximum of 40 characters in the text box.

- They cannot post links (if you post a link === [dead] comment).

- 90 day waiting period until the user can post submissions.

Job done.

I don’t believe that. Almost all the ones marked [dead] are real, normal comments simply disagreeing with the official HN viewpoints.

They’re not AI comments. They are very often regular people just sharing viewpoints which many times seem totally fine.

Sometimes they will [dead] a joke just because it was a joke. Not even offensive just grumpy mod doesn’t want humor so it’s gone.

But that is gutting the site of all its good content.

All that remains is “kagi” “Claude” and the same 4 topics