Developer says Lobsters banned him for writing in a style resembling an LLM

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A developer published a blog post recounting that he was banned from the Lobsters tech discussion community. He reports the ban was tied to his writing style, which moderators reportedly judged to resemble text produced by a large language model. The post was shared on Hacker News, where it gathered 9 points and one comment at the time of listing. The article details his account of the incident and his reaction to being flagged as AI-generated. The source material provides limited information beyond the post's existence and its reception.

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