Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
First off, this thread is NOT a petition to rally against the moderation team. Considering the deluge of trash they deal with every day, I think they are doing a valiant job and are to be commended.<p>That said, its becoming more and more obvious every day that there is a tremendous amount of attempts by bots, and specifically AI agents, bombarding HN every day. I worry about the integrity of the discourse here and if the ever growing wave of slop will overtake staff resources to deal with it. Is it time to implement captcha for HN? If so, should it be out of the box, or a new mechanism more tailored to the security and privacy-centric nature of the HN readership?
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First off, this thread is NOT a petition to rally against the moderation team. Considering the deluge of trash they deal with every day, I think they are doing a valiant job and are to be commended.<p>That said, its becoming more and more obvious every day that there is a tremendous amount of attempts by bots, and specifically AI agents, bombarding HN every day. I worry about the integrity of the discourse here and if the ever growing wave of slop will overtake staff resources to deal with it. Is it time to implement captcha for HN? If so, should it be out of the box, or a new mechanism more tailored to the security and privacy-centric nature of the HN readership?