# SlopStop by Kagi Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/slopstop/ 11 people recommended SlopStop by Kagi in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. 8 of the 11 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search”. **Verdict:** Community-reported filter that flags and downranks low-effort AI slop in Kagi Search results. Main caveat: reliance on user reports and unclear criteria for what counts as slop. Summary written by Claude from 22 comments. ## Why people recommend it - Cuts down AI slop in results (5 comments in the sample): "Given the overwhelming amounts of slop that have been plaguing search results, it’s about damn time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920981)) "I would welcome the search engine filtering out low quality, low effort spam for me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920920)) "I applaud any effort to stem the deluge of slop in search results." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919721)) - Welcome effort from Kagi (2 comments in the sample): "Thanks for the heads-up on this, and thanks to Kagi of course for enabling it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008882)) "Your company is proof the search problem has plenty left to solve for." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922333)) ## What people warn about - Treats all AI content as slop (3 comments in the sample): "I’d rather see this framed as “report low-value/spammy content” than “report AI slop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731144)) "Seems like they are equating all generated content with slop." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919457)) "this tagging is more a fight against bad writing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919706)) - Relies on user reports, inconsistent (2 comments in the sample): "My only concern about this is that it seems to rely on user reporting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718360)) "They started marking a lot of my reports as not slop when it’s very obviously ai garbage." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015541)) - Slow start and not effective enough (2 comments in the sample): "They had quite some lag at the beginning." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007442)) "it is not nearly as effective as it needs to be" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014445)) - Could be used against human sites (2 comments in the sample): "I would never activate a feature that down-ranks or hides results based on some ominous judgement on quality by a Kagi team." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730009)) "I can see this being weaponised against controversial sites made by humans, with no way to prove they are human." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719692)) ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://kagi.com/) ## 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, "SlopStop by Kagi", https://hackerapproved.com/p/slopstop/ (11 recommend, 2 mixed, 7 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.