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Frannkyyesterday at 11:11 PM10 repliesview on HN

I am very confused by the comments, they seem too excited for this... Are they real or paid bots? If they are real, kudos to OP


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visiwigtoday at 4:48 AM

Hey thanks, I didn't pay for bots, unsure how to prove that though.

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lukantoday at 8:03 AM

They all seem to come from quite old HN profiles, though. So if someone managed to overtake old HN accounts for manipulation .. I would assume it would be for a more lucrative target?

postsantumtoday at 7:23 AM

I wish I was able to be excited over svg backgrounds. How different life would be..

ohyoutraveltoday at 11:26 AM

This one is quite good. The author is known, here fielding questions, and the project is like ten years old. If there are bots, I really don’t think they’re coordinated in any way with the OP, only coordinated in the usual “spam HN to get karma” sort of way.

owebmastertoday at 11:13 AM

Your behavior makes HN worse the same way AI bots do it

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j45today at 12:23 AM

There’s likely folks who discovered to that svgs could do many amazing things, except the tooling didn’t seem to be readily available.

Now when I see someone build something working with SVG, I check it out to see how it might compare to another way of doing it.

Frannkyyesterday at 11:14 PM

It may also be that I am just comment AI paranoid, but yeah, I find myself a lot guessing if there's a person behind a comment or not

mikodintoday at 2:42 AM

Unclear but I will say upon opening the site I was sparked with joy and excitement to use them

democracytoday at 9:48 AM

Yes we are all paid bots, thanks for your valuable input, chump