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so, are we just-ok-Earth now?

• cjhanks 8y ago
  Ech, down-voted for humor. Sometimes I wonder if the HN crowd has a minority contingency of hunchbacks licking salt and sucking on dewy moss for sustenance.
  • HillaryBriss 8y ago
    yeah. :-) once in a while my attempts at humor somehow dodge down voting, but not this time. tough crowd. tough crowd.
    • hndamien 8y ago
      It's very tough out there on the HN comedy circuit. Exhibit A - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633615
  • chc 8y ago
    I love chocolate sorbet, but I don't want chocolate sorbet on my pants. I feel the same way about empty jokes in discussion threads. If you are contributing to the conversation, your joke will probably get upvoted for the insight it brings. If your joke doesn't contribute to the conversation (e.g. the joke above was just a pun), it will rightly get downvoted because that's what you're supposed to do with comments that don't contribute to the conversation. There are lots of other places on the Internet we can go for jokes — most forums, actually — so I think it's OK for some places to try to push for a higher signal-to-noise ratio.
  • nur0n 8y ago
    I think the lack of information (conversely, the increase in noise) is what is being downvoted. It is possible, although much more difficult, to be both funny and informative. That being said, it cracks me up when people get downvoted so heavily for jokes!