# Slop Cop Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/slop-cop/ 9 people recommended Slop Cop in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 20 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 6 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. 5 of the 9 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Slop Cop”. **Verdict:** Criticized more than recommended: critics say it flags too many false positives on ordinary writing; those who recommend it cite catching repetitive AI writing patterns and verbose comments in agent output. Summary written by Claude from the comments below. ## What people warn about - Too many false positives on normal text (5 comments in the sample): "there are simply too many false positives to make this and any similar tool have any usefulness beyond flagging the most obvious offenders" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813035)) "Inputting Japanese sentences of any length flags the whole sentence as "Dramatic Fragment: A standalone paragraph with ≤4 words" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812899)) "This causes very large blocks of my writing to be highlighted as "Hedge Stack" which isn't really helpful." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812545)) - Strips personality and voice from writing (3 comments in the sample): "These kinds of tools only narrow the scope of our expression and over time can suffocate the entire written language" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816822)) "most (all?) of the suggestions were just stripping the personality out of the writing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812289)) "The feedback needs to go away or this thing is just exacerbating the problem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809234)) - Doesn't really detect AI, just grammar (3 comments in the sample): "It makes the mistake of failing to identify why the AI 'style' feels wrong." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811458)) "This doesn't detect AI slop. It's just a grammarly/copilot clone." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810080)) "we can't trust the reliability of an AI detector" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808195)) - Website and UI look unfinished (2 comments in the sample): "This website itself looks like it was generated by an LLM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813602)) "Add Slop API Key' button is a missed opportunity here" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813312)) ## Why people recommend it - Catches LLM writing patterns and cliches (3 comments in the sample): "I gave Slop Cop 775 words of an essay by Schopenhauer (translated into English) and got "15 patterns detected." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911623)) "I like the effect of a multicolored slab of highlights calling out every LLM cliche in a passage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811889)) "It caught a "Short-Hook Paragraph" and "Negation Pivot" and "Staccato Burst" in one text." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817165)) - Cleans up verbose agent-written code comments (2 comments in the sample): "I tell my agents to "run slopocop against the updated files before committing" and I am finally free of "load bearing", incredibly verbose comments" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248638)) "The insane comments are why I wrote slopocop - they were driving me crazy!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297863)) - Catchy, self-explanatory name (2 comments in the sample): "Name seems fine. Catchy, and I knew what I did before opening link." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811874)) "Catchy, rhymes, and immediately tells you what it does." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813981)) - Useful for business and everyday writing (2 comments in the sample): "I think this can be useful for business writing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811870)) "this tool would help with those cases" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813935)) ## Other grammar checkers people recommend - [Grammarly](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grammarly/): 16 recommend, 4 mixed, 63 criticize - [LanguageTool](https://hackerapproved.com/p/languagetool/): 9 recommend, 3 mixed, 2 criticize - [Hemingway Editor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hemingway-editor/): 6 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Slop Cop", https://hackerapproved.com/p/slop-cop/ (9 recommend, 4 mixed, 20 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 3 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.