3 ms·
There are plenty of habits I prefer not cross over from reddit to HN, but pun threads aren't one of them. They're harmless fun, no?
by jMyles 9y ago
There are plenty of habits I prefer not cross over from reddit to HN, but pun threads aren't one of them. They're harmless fun, no?
- bpodgursky 9y agoNo, it distracts from any actual informative comments when pun drivel gets upvoted to the top.
- cwyers 9y agoIt's less distracting than having 20 comments at the bottom of the thread to something that's been flagkilled and having to read the replies and trying to guess what got flagkilled, though.
- swsieber 9y agoYou can use the show dead feature... if you really want to know what got killed. And there's something to be said for the occasional inconvenience of flag killed comments for keeping a site from degenerating.
- gardnr 9y agoHow does one use the show dead feature?
- sp332 9y agoHead to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gardnr https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gardnr and set "showdead" to "yes", then click update.
- err4nt 9y agoThank you so much for this - I've always wondered what that meant, and knowing now I can read all of the normal HN comments _and_ the jokes has made my HN experience 2x better!
- gardnr 9y agoThat is the only reason I am reading your comment. I have spent decades honing my bullshit filter. I would have folded a pun thread up. I might have accidentally read some posts and had a chuckle first. Now I am reading about something entirely different than an overpriced juicer.
- 0x4f3759df 9y agoTurn showdead on in settings
- Karunamon 9y agoAgreed. I really wish people would lighten the fuck up a little bit around here.
- tdb7893 9y agoI personally like the more serious tone here. I get enough of the memes on reddit (and slack) so it's nice to have a place that actually generally has serious discussion. Also if you want less serious discussions there are already tons of places that have that so it's not like you can't get programming puns if you want them