man, lobste.rs really is the let's propagandise the latest shit i vibe coded site now, isn't it
413 people are filtering the vibecoding tag (meaning they don’t see stories with that tag). The only ones with more people filtering are meta (discussions about lobste.rs itself, which are frequently long and tedious) and PHP (414 Filtering).
The dotnet tag has 412 people filtering it, so vibe coding is in between .NET and PHP in unpopularity.
Once a lot of people are filtering a tag, the number of stories that will be flagged goes down because the people who would flag it are not seeing it. It ends up in a little echo chamber of people who care about it.
@david_chisnall the official advice "if you don't like rat poop on your pizza you can just pick it out" has a number of obvious issues
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@david_chisnall it's also unfortunate that blocking the tag doesn't block the spam from the vibecoders in the comments of unrelated posts
i could block each rat poop generator individually, but again,
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@davidgerard @david_chisnall I think of it like a sacrificial anode; if that tag didn't exist, the rest of the site would be much worse
@technomancy @davidgerard @david_chisnall unfortunately, I don't think you can block users (you can of course use user scripting to do so).
I haven't seen that much of AI boosters spilling outside the vibecoding tag.
But yeah, my love of Lobsters has dampened a bit. But I cannot think of any other measure to fix this (other than the tag) that would feel "right".
I wish people would stop engaging. I think they'd get tired quite soon.
@coder @david_chisnall @technomancy i don't think "ignore the spammers" has ever worked in history and it's not clear why you think it would.
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What image is that supposed to be? The alt text is not informative and it appears to be a screenshot of something in a parked domain.