I haven’t done much research on the magnitude of this issue, but I’ve already encountered three AI-generated comments in around 30 minutes, and I assume this is especially a problem on smaller and niche posts. I feel like many people can agree that AI-generated comments are overall annoying, waste time and effort, and can lead to people using inefficient or potentially dangerous solutions to problems; addressing this issue would make navigating the dev forum easier, safer, and more reliable.
To help remedy the AI problem, I think there should be a dislike button for comments due to people’s AI-generating responses for topics. I’m aware of the flag option, but I propose that if a comment gets enough dislikes, the comment would get removed from the post and the user would be automatically flagged.
Edit: Rather than having a dislike button, like Tomi1231 said, we should have more reactions, like a dislike and AI reaction that are unmoderated. This would prevent toxicity but still allow people to express their opinions about a comment or warn others of AI-generated comments.
The flag option is useful, but it would be nice if these AI-generated comments could be removed from posts as soon as possible, and I feel that a dislike button that removes a comment with a certain number of dislikes would make this possible.
It sounds like your problem is not “there is no dislike button”, but something about the quality of post content, right? Do you mind re-titling and rephrasing your post to be about your problem rather than some specific solution as described by the feature request guidelines: About the Forum Features category
This seems like a pretty good solution. I’m also worried about toxicity becoming widespread on the forum, but I kind of trust the dev forum community to stay clean. I do like this solution better, however.
I believe that some way for users to easily express their opinion on a topic or post would be better than an over reliance on moderators to keep the site clean. There are many situations where, in my opinion, moderators either overmoderate or undermoderate the forum
More reactions would allow for users to express their opinion on the quality of a post without having moderators moderate literally everything. Some “bad” posts don’t necessary break the rules, some of them are more like opinions, which is fine, and reactions would be a good way to express that you have a different opinion (if you don’t feel like making a reply to present your opinion)
I’m writing this based on my take on this suggestion which would be more reactions, and not a dislike button per say. So it would rather be a way of quickly expressing an opinion on a post, that would also be easily visible to anyone reading the post
In the case of AI posts, they could be moderated and removed, though I feel like that would be quite a bit of work. It could also get a bit messy if AIs become better and more human like, if there is a rule about it, it wont be enforceable without risking removing valid posts
(dislike one to be debated)
