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Terrettatoday at 3:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

Where is this karma-farming marketing template from?

It's all over reddit to a tiresome degree, and increasing in Ask HNs as well, generally from new accounts (as of now, the OP account is green).

They all go like this:

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I've been doing this thing, and noticed stuff.

"The gap seems real"

"The use case seems obvious"

"So my question to the community is:"

- product/market fit bullets

Re-assertion of being just "curious".

"Happy to" [market to you more] "if you're interested".

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Who wrote the original structure? What is everyone using to generate this same form over and over?

(I could image it being one of those "$900 to learn this one cool trick" SEO influencers, maybe SaaS-ified into one of those custom GPTs? It is shockingly effective at driving engagement -- nerd sniping the genuinely helpful?)

Is there a way to filter these out?


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tlhuntertoday at 3:21 AM

It's likely LLM generated

peytontoday at 4:09 AM

Reddit’s been fake for a while dude. They’re just taking top posts/comment chains and asking LLMs to generate similar content.

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