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No, a serious tone is what keeps us from being Reddit
by JBReefer 10y ago
No, a serious tone is what keeps us from being Reddit
- askafriend 10y agoWe have some cheeky humor here every now and then and my personal opinion is that it's completely fine, but it's usually made in tandem with a serious reply :)
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- spatulon 10y agoAs John Cleese pointed out (IIRC, as a followup to him making a brilliantly funny and loving eulogy to Graham Chapman - "Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries"), you can be serious without being solemn. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487081 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487081
- oldmanjay 10y agoYou certainly can. Far more often what occurs on the internet is that people are jokey and disruptive without bothering to be brilliantly funny, and we don't need much of that here at all.
- moogly 10y agoIf that is the only thing, then HN is in deep trouble.
- Disruptive_Dave 10y agoYes, we are all very, very important and doing very, very important and serious things. Humor has no place in human culture. Very, very important.
- babyrainbow 10y agoI don't know about you. But me and JBreefer are pretty important people. I for one, provides a nearly 100 mosquitoes every day with vital nutrients from my blood. I don't know what the poor things will do without me. Pretty sure, (judging by how serious JBreefer is, and how he starts the comment by an emphatic "No"), that he also act as a corner stone of some similar establishment....