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You think that discussion naturally tends towards "let's not take this seriously and I like being funny", so it's destined overtime?

• DanBC 11y ago
  I don't know. I just suddenly started seeing a bunch of pun threads. A year or so ago they would have been downvoted and had people making polite posts about how that kind of thing isn't welcome here. But these didn't seem to have downvotes. I have no idea if they got flags or not. Maybe I just started noticing something that's been here a long time? It'd be interesting to see if mods noticed anything.
  • random_rr 11y ago
    You are not alone. Lots of comments on HMM in the past 4-5 months have been low effort, half hearted cynical reddit fare. The community has done a pretty good job of policing the tone here, but it's certainly becoming noticeable. This frightens me - I'm sure most people here are familiar with the quality of discussion of any reasonably large subreddit. The idea of that happening here is not enjoyable.
    • hellbanner 11y ago
      Glad to hear some consensus on this. I've been flagging low-quality comments but the sudden & sharp increase in reddit-style comments worries me. Curious if any mods have noticed this as well?
    • cronjobber 11y ago
      > low effort Of course, HN's habit of downvoting posts because of disagreement punishes effort. What do you expect?
      • hellbanner 11y ago
        Well, a year ago I'd see "low effort" jokes or simple statements downvoted or removed. I'd see many discussions which had disagreeing replies one after the other, all positively voted. So perhaps "Hn's habit of downvoting" has evolved over the years.