I've been seeing alot more spam, self-promotion, and advertisements (notoriously about recovering lost crypto, hacking, etc.) on HN recently. There was one story I saw about looking for wedding dresses, and the OP of that story made a thread advertizing (and self-promoting?) a store for wedding dresses.<p>I've looked into a profile of a spammer I see frequently, and they made some good submissions/comments, mostly obscurred by the spam they made.<p>Anyone else noticing this?
I haven't noticed more outright spam, but I've noticed many "borderline clickbait" articles that are get suspiciously highly upvoted. They tend to be flagged after a while, but only after spending quite a long time on the front page.<p>I think people have finally figured out how to cheaply raise bot accounts to promote their clickbait articles on HN. LLMs that make it easy to raise fake accounts with good karma might have to do with that.
I only check-in when I've got downtime at $WORK (or before the workday starts)<p>I've seen ... maybe 3? spam posts this summer - but all were already flagged by the time I clicked "flag" (less than 5m after sbimission)
For me HN was, is and will be an endless stream of Lisp-related topics. When the amount of Lisp-related content would decrease, that will be a panic time for me.