Flagged. Internet humour is very corrosive w/r/t quality discussion (see: http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science-Research/Where-are-the-most-interesting-uncharte

Flagged. Internet humour is very corrosive w/r/t quality discussion (see: http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science-Research/Where-are-the-most-interesting-uncharted-waters-in-social-software-design http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science-Research/Where-are-the...), and any community site worth their salt has to figure out ways to protect itself from it. Quora, for instance, has in-built controls to prevent humour from overtaking the site (they've got Not Helpful flags that collapse the comment almost immediately) - on HN all we have are upvote/downvotes, and so this is, naturally, what we use to correct for humour. For those of you who don't want to read this - author is essentially whining about HN's supposed lack of humour over his one-liner masturbation comment.