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The insistence that HN be a completely dour, humorless place reduces its quality a lot more than a single subthread ever could.
by Karunamon 9y ago
The insistence that HN be a completely dour, humorless place reduces its quality a lot more than a single subthread ever could.
- minimaxir 9y agoThere's a bit of nuance to humor; it's not black and white. Good humor is much, much harder to produce than code. Pun threads in particular are lazy attempts at humor, which is worse.
- Karunamon 9y agoI disagree and find puns amusing. Certainly not noxious enough to encounter the outright hatred expressed here.
- mrkrabo 9y agoIt doesn't have to be humourless. You're free to make jokes. You're not free to make a comment that just consists of a joke.
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- tdb7893 9y agoI read HN for technical content so humor is fine as long as it doesn't distract from the content much. It's like a work meeting, humor is good but not of it distracts from what the actual point is
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