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Which have you tried? :) p.s: anyone that downvotes this, you should really allow HN to be a place with a small dosage of humor sometimes!!

jjordan 9y ago
If I want to scroll through pages and pages of joke threads, I'll go to reddit. HN is special in its high signal to noise ratio.
- tonyedgecombe 9y ago
  There is as much noise here as any other place on the internet, we are not special here.
- salesguy222 9y ago
  Some of the most profound observations in this world were made by accident, or through jokes. Some of the most effective speakers routinely incorporate humor into their presentations, including John Carmack. If you really feel this site needs more technical manuals, nobody will stop you. But if you think humor is less important than the debate about Italian vs French bread that is on the front page right now, then I wish you luck in your very dull life
rhizome 9y ago
Right, without you there would be zero humor on this site.
- salesguy222 9y ago
  Rosa Parks wasn't the only person who was a victim of institutionalized racism, but she is uniquely remembered for her form of protest
  - dang 9y ago
    Please stop.
  - HeavenBanned 9y ago
    Comparing your cowboy-commentary on an internet forum to Rosa Park's dangerous form of protest where her very life was on the line is completely disingenuous and makes you sound completely ignorant.
DanBC 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 scott_s > I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise. > I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."
jwilk 9y ago
From the HN guidelines: Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
- salesguy222 9y ago
  That is a bullshit rule and I would rather be banned and crucified than even attempt to be that fucking complacent
c22 9y ago
I've posted plenty of clever one liners that have gotten upvoted, but many that have gotten downvotes as well. It's not that you can't post funny stuff to HN, you just have to accept the risk that it may not play as well here as it did in your head.

jjordan 9y ago

If I want to scroll through pages and pages of joke threads, I'll go to reddit. HN is special in its high signal to noise ratio.

tonyedgecombe 9y ago
There is as much noise here as any other place on the internet, we are not special here.
salesguy222 9y ago
Some of the most profound observations in this world were made by accident, or through jokes. Some of the most effective speakers routinely incorporate humor into their presentations, including John Carmack. If you really feel this site needs more technical manuals, nobody will stop you. But if you think humor is less important than the debate about Italian vs French bread that is on the front page right now, then I wish you luck in your very dull life

rhizome 9y ago

Right, without you there would be zero humor on this site.

salesguy222 9y ago
Rosa Parks wasn't the only person who was a victim of institutionalized racism, but she is uniquely remembered for her form of protest
- dang 9y ago
  Please stop.
- HeavenBanned 9y ago
  Comparing your cowboy-commentary on an internet forum to Rosa Park's dangerous form of protest where her very life was on the line is completely disingenuous and makes you sound completely ignorant.

DanBC 9y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 scott_s > I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise. > I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."

jwilk 9y ago

From the HN guidelines: Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

salesguy222 9y ago
That is a bullshit rule and I would rather be banned and crucified than even attempt to be that fucking complacent

c22 9y ago

I've posted plenty of clever one liners that have gotten upvoted, but many that have gotten downvotes as well. It's not that you can't post funny stuff to HN, you just have to accept the risk that it may not play as well here as it did in your head.