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pretty much every internet community has devolved into primarily sharing funny pictures, there arent just plenty of other places to go to find funny stuff, it i

pretty much every internet community has devolved into primarily sharing funny pictures, there arent just plenty of other places to go to find funny stuff, it is the rest of the internet. I dont think many people think of new.yc as a humour free zone, its just the humour has to be on the side of the content, not the content itself.

DanielBMarkham 16y ago
Sigh. This sounds more like an argument starting. But here goes: XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. Explain the difference. I am assuming that the cute girl does not somehow render technology jokes and drawings ineffective. You put an XKCD comic on a bosom, it's still an XKCD comic. EDIT: And if you say something like "but the fact it was a girl was part of the content and not just the tech" then the point is that it's an integrated art form. The pieces have to work together. It is still tech related. EDIT 2 (an hour later): I made the mistake here of starting to defend my actual article. This was off-topic from the question posed. I took the bait, and I should have known better.
- daleharvey 16y ago
  I dont think there is an important difference. I dont think every xkcd / bash.org / dilbert comic should be posted either, and to be honest its been a while since I remember ever seeing any of these hit the front page. (scott adams' blog posts do not count, they are content). I mean I like all of those sites, but I have the rest of the internet in which to find them.
- mquander 16y ago
  I don't think people would be big fans of XKCD or Dilbert posts here either.
  - ErrantX 16y ago
    They have been upvoted in the past (I'm not certain but I think xkcd.com might be a banned URL now though) and hit the front page. I think there is a distinct difference between them and "hot girls in geeky tshirts" or whatever. Usually they were "on topic" or actually amusing!
    - absconditus 16y ago
      The Dilbert submissions that make it to the front page are not the comic strip. They are posts from the author's blog.
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- buro9 16y ago
  The treating of women as sexual objects in an industry over-represented by men. The integrated art form you speak of is just thinly disguised sexism. I personally don't find that interesting or funny, I suspect others don't. <edit>I got down-voted for pointing out something sexist? Now there's a telling thing!</edit>
- lionhearted 16y ago
  > But here goes: XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. One thing I like about Hacker News is that a high percent of articles teach me something valuable about technology or business. I like that XKCD rarely if ever comes up here, even though I go to the xkcd site maybe once a month and catch up when I just want to laugh, and will likely see the most insightful xkcd comics embedded with blog posts. Likewise, a small percent of Dilbert gets linked here - most of the links are to Scott Adams' essays, some of which are pretty insightful. Likewise, cute girls in a humorous way is available everywhere, and doesn't teach on technology or business. I'll go to Reddit when I want to laugh, the Reddit frontpage usually has something funny right on it, like this one right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c6evn/winner/ http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c6evn/winner/ Or maybe I'll go to /r/relationship_advice, which is unintentionally hilarious with blind-leading-the-blind advice, though I am forced to cringe, login, and give a drastically different opinion at times, which can be a time sink. Anyways, long story short: Signal-to-noise ratio on practically useful things here is quite high. Maybe it's slipped a tiny bit, but it's still probably between 50% and 80% potentially valuable. It seems like it used to be 80%+ valuable, so the slip is a shame, but this has got to be the best site for both potentially practically beneficial while still be entertaining/stimulating/not too dry.
- abrahamsen 16y ago
  > XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. None of them should be on HackerNews. All of them can be found on reddit, which is where I go if I'm in that mood.
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DanielBMarkham 16y ago

Sigh. This sounds more like an argument starting. But here goes: XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. Explain the difference. I am assuming that the cute girl does not somehow render technology jokes and drawings ineffective. You put an XKCD comic on a bosom, it's still an XKCD comic. EDIT: And if you say something like "but the fact it was a girl was part of the content and not just the tech" then the point is that it's an integrated art form. The pieces have to work together. It is still tech related. EDIT 2 (an hour later): I made the mistake here of starting to defend my actual article. This was off-topic from the question posed. I took the bait, and I should have known better.

daleharvey 16y ago
I dont think there is an important difference. I dont think every xkcd / bash.org / dilbert comic should be posted either, and to be honest its been a while since I remember ever seeing any of these hit the front page. (scott adams' blog posts do not count, they are content). I mean I like all of those sites, but I have the rest of the internet in which to find them.
mquander 16y ago
I don't think people would be big fans of XKCD or Dilbert posts here either.
- ErrantX 16y ago
  They have been upvoted in the past (I'm not certain but I think xkcd.com might be a banned URL now though) and hit the front page. I think there is a distinct difference between them and "hot girls in geeky tshirts" or whatever. Usually they were "on topic" or actually amusing!
  - absconditus 16y ago
    The Dilbert submissions that make it to the front page are not the comic strip. They are posts from the author's blog.
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buro9 16y ago
The treating of women as sexual objects in an industry over-represented by men. The integrated art form you speak of is just thinly disguised sexism. I personally don't find that interesting or funny, I suspect others don't. <edit>I got down-voted for pointing out something sexist? Now there's a telling thing!</edit>
lionhearted 16y ago
> But here goes: XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. One thing I like about Hacker News is that a high percent of articles teach me something valuable about technology or business. I like that XKCD rarely if ever comes up here, even though I go to the xkcd site maybe once a month and catch up when I just want to laugh, and will likely see the most insightful xkcd comics embedded with blog posts. Likewise, a small percent of Dilbert gets linked here - most of the links are to Scott Adams' essays, some of which are pretty insightful. Likewise, cute girls in a humorous way is available everywhere, and doesn't teach on technology or business. I'll go to Reddit when I want to laugh, the Reddit frontpage usually has something funny right on it, like this one right now: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c6evn/winner/ http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/c6evn/winner/ Or maybe I'll go to /r/relationship_advice, which is unintentionally hilarious with blind-leading-the-blind advice, though I am forced to cringe, login, and give a drastically different opinion at times, which can be a time sink. Anyways, long story short: Signal-to-noise ratio on practically useful things here is quite high. Maybe it's slipped a tiny bit, but it's still probably between 50% and 80% potentially valuable. It seems like it used to be 80%+ valuable, so the slip is a shame, but this has got to be the best site for both potentially practically beneficial while still be entertaining/stimulating/not too dry.
abrahamsen 16y ago
> XKCD. Dilbert. Cute girls with funny technology T-shirts. None of them should be on HackerNews. All of them can be found on reddit, which is where I go if I'm in that mood.
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