Ask HN: Please fix the spam filter it's killing lots of legit comments
The discussion highlights concerns regarding the effectiveness of the spam filter on a popular comment platform. Users have noted that many legitimate comments are being flagged, while some obviously generated content is still getting through. The conversation suggests that allowing visibility of less noteworthy comments could foster better engagement from new users.
- ▪Many comments are flagged by users as spam, despite being legitimate.
- ▪Some low-effort comments are still visible only to those who choose to see them.
- ▪The community believes that allowing these comments could improve user interaction.
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Those threads have lots of comments that are both obviously LLM-generated and also flagged by users (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262928 ) So if anything, the spam filter is still not strict enough.And if a newbie's not-particularly-noteworthy comments are only visible to people with showdead on, is that really so bad? If they keep lurking and occasionally posting, at some point they'll say something interesting enough that people will vouch for the dead comment. That would probably actually lead to a more pleasant first interaction than getting downvoted for a low-effort reply.
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