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Why are people here always downvoting jokes? I mean especially jokes. You could say something racist or otherwise bigoted and it would still be slightly better
by Double_a_92 8y ago
Why are people here always downvoting jokes? I mean especially jokes. You could say something racist or otherwise bigoted and it would still be slightly better than jokes.
And also it's almost impossible to get upvotes. Why are we so toxic on here?
- steve_adams_86 8y agoProbably something to do with being greasy and full of carbon.
- Veen 8y agoToxic means poisonous. How is preferring to avoid Reddit's plague of puns and repeated identical jokes poisonous? Toxic does not mean "anything that I don't like".
- Double_a_92 8y agoToxic referred to not upvoting any comments or being positive in other ways. My "best" comment where lots of people agreed has 9 likes... Usually I end up with -1 or -2, even on normal serious comments. Meh...
- smt88 8y agoJokes don't contribute to the discussion. They're generally considered noise rather than signal here. HN's official policy is that it isn't reddit and doesn't want to be reddit. In my opinion, intolerance of jokes is the entire distinction between the two. There's also the issue that jokes are often misunderstood and end up causing even more wasted text.
- Double_a_92 8y agoActually they do. Worrying about if your comment is "serious" and good enough is what is blocking discussion. I'd rather not comment at all when comments on here seem to mostly displease other people.
- krapp 8y ago>HN's official policy is that it isn't reddit and doesn't want to be reddit. That's its culture, there's no "official policy" along those lines. In fact, the guidelines used to warn people not to claim that Hacker News was turning into Reddit, calling it a "common semi-noob illusion."