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0 pointslamontcg14d ago0 comments

This thread is literally doing nothing.

Nobody is going to stop using grammarly extensions to post to HN, nobody is going to be able to detect its usage.

This thread just lets a certain kind of people put on their best condescending hall-monitor voice and lecture other people about how they should behave.

And the rule is arguably less useful than speed limits and will be broken about as often (at least speed limits have a very real link to physical safety via kinetic energy).

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davorak13d ago

> Nobody is going to stop using grammarly extensions to post to HN, nobody is going to be able to detect its usage.

I do not think the new rules or for this use case or at least not target at them.

None of the examples I looked at from Dang's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342616 look like gramarly edits that are hard to notice.

> This thread just lets a certain kind of people put on their best condescending hall-monitor voice and lecture other people about how they should behave.

I think it is, at least mostly, about the blatant cases that are often already down voted and flag and make it official.

> And the rule is arguably less useful than speed limits and will be broken about as often (at least speed limits have a very real link to physical safety via kinetic energy).

I often see the rules in: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html broken, mostly small ways, I still think we are better off with them or something similar rather than having nothing.

yellowapple10d ago

> I think it is, at least mostly, about the blatant cases that are often already down voted and flag and make it official.

Which raises the question of why an official guideline is necessary in the first place. Obvious LLM slop being downvoted into oblivion is itself a good enough measure, without needing to create extra rules by which to hang the innocent.

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