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This site is about gratifying intellectual curiosity, not gratifying the part that derives pleasure from seeing that someone else had the same utterly predictab
by sctb 8y ago
This site is about gratifying intellectual curiosity, not gratifying the part that derives pleasure from seeing that someone else had the same utterly predictable thought.
- jexah 8y agoI didn't think of that particular joke, and I never mentioned up voting (in your words, gratifying). My mind was considering the topic at hand, and I felt the stark change of tone was nice. I like seeing some humour every now and then interspersed in threads. Some get up votes some get down votes, and your reasoning doesn't really explain why, since a common sense of humour surely indicates that lots of people would have thought of the same joke, and thus every funny joke on HN would be down voted?