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I admit that I was wrong here, point taken. I appreciate the reference.

That is fair point, I'll follow this guideline from now on. Apologies, I wasn't aware of this before.

I'm not sure if you flagged my comment too, but I'm a real person with a posting history. psnehanshu also has a posting history and contact information on their profile, so I doubt this person is a bot or a person who wrote an AI-generated comment.

I manually highlighted the key parts of the article in my comment to encourage discussion, for people who read the comments first. I'm not sure what psnehanshu posted as it's flagged, but making claims that early comments are AI-generated (especially when they are likely not the case) cuts down on discussion.

The parent to the comment you linked to also disclosed that it was AI-generated. My comment was not, and I'm willing to bet that psnehanshu's comment was not either.

This was a fun read. Merging a few quotes to provide the gist of the article for discussion: "Dracula’s own powers – superhuman strength, the control of local weather, the ability to summon and direct brute creatures – cannot match the powers of his Enemy. And that Enemy is not Dr. Van Helsing or Jonathan Harker or any of the other people who chase him, but rather technocratic modernity itself […]

"Our heroes’ long pursuit of Dracula is largely a matter of tracing the written records of everything Dracula does in England. Note also that the enemies of Dracula coordinate their plan of action with reference to the sequence of events that they have recorded using typewriters and phonographs. (Dracula is the first novel featuring voice memos.) […]

"[And modernity reigns not just in England: even in eastern Europe the pursuers are greatly aided by Mina’s knowledge of when the trains run — and by telegraphs they receive from London. Railway timetables, telegraphs, phonographs, typewriters, invoices, bills of lading, double-entry bookkeeping: these are the instruments by which Dracula’s pursuers draw their net around him."