On: Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

[latexr]

Because it’s becoming a common belief that any em-dash indicates LLM writing, and us people who regularly use em-dashes are attempting to show that is a poor signal on its own. The goal is to show proof of humans using it.

[Tostino → latexr]

Or at least to have a baseline. If you see a sudden jump, that does tell you something.

[bee_rider → Tostino]

Maybe it tells us that, thanks to AI, some folks learned about a perfectly useful piece of punctuation.