I got banned from Lobsters for writing like an LLM
andros · hn · 2026-11-04
Developer Andros shares how he was banned from the Lobsters tech community after moderators judged his writing style to be LLM-generated. The post explores what this means for human expression in the AI era: as more writing carries LLM-like patterns, how should communities distinguish genuine human posts from machine output, and who bears the cost of false positives from such style policing?
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