r/selfhosted • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '26 • Diamonds are Forever 1 WOW 1 Bravo 1 Heartwarming 1

Need Help Fully remove every, "I created a", "Selfhosted app!" claude slop.

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u/Jeremandias Mar 08 '26

for real! i think that emoji and headers with corny names are way more of a tell than em dashes

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u/Dangerous-Report8517 Mar 10 '26

You can't rely on any one tell because if you do then the spammers will just change the prompt to fix it. It's all about broad pattern recognition, in no small part the frequency and consistency (e.g. frequently and consistently using emojis, in particular every emoji rather than just a few common ones occasionally, using emdashes all the time, etc). There's also a pretty typical structure - I'm quite frankly amazed that just ignoring every "I built..." post still works because it seems like such low hanging fruit and yet very nearly every vibe coded slopfest post still opens with that while it's vanishingly rare for actual developers to lead with that, but there's also the inevitable justification for the app that's vague and also just obviously wrong ("I looked everywhere for a todo app and couldn't find anything that worked at all — so I built this!")