4 ms·

Then why don't we take our guard down when someone posts a little sarcasm or a small joke. Why do these posts always have a -4 or less karma? Why don't we have

by rick_2047 16y ago

Then why don't we take our guard down when someone posts a little sarcasm or a small joke. Why do these posts always have a -4 or less karma? Why don't we have a separate section for lolcatz pics? In an office we have all that, nobody is totally professional with their first hand colleagues.

ugh 16y ago
Memes kill my experience on so many other websites, that’s why I will downvote every comment which makes reference to a meme. (Other meaningful content might save the comment sometimes.) Others seem to agree which is why those kinds of comments always get downvoted quickly. All the other stuff – sarcasm, jokes – is not always downvoted, it sometimes even receives a lot of upvotes. Don’t expect every joke to be upvoted, even if it’s a witty one. I guess it is consensus that we don’t want to see HN flooded with jokes and sarcasm.
- rick_2047 16y ago
  Why this hypocrisy then? Shouldn't we have equal standards for all the things?
  - davidw 16y ago
    It's not hypocrisy, it's just very subjective. People upvote funny things from time to time, and downvote things that aren't funny often. There's no objective standard for that, obviously, but generally, 'funny' means something fairly new and unique and with some thought behind it, not trotting out some lame old sarcastic joke. Edit: I suppose the moral of the story is: if you're not sure, don't post it.
  - ugh 16y ago
    No we shouldn’t and it’s not hypocrisy. It’s appropriate editorial control. Think how a magazine editor would think. A great profile of Julian Assange might be worthy front page material if it is the first Wikileaks article in months, it probably isn’t if articles about Wikileaks were on the front page every day the whole last month.
CopyrightTroll 16y ago
Nice 'troll' rick but most don't get it.

4 ms·

Then why don't we take our guard down when someone posts a little sarcasm or a small joke. Why do these posts always have a -4 or less karma? Why don't we have

by rick_2047 16y ago

ugh 16y ago
Memes kill my experience on so many other websites, that’s why I will downvote every comment which makes reference to a meme. (Other meaningful content might save the comment sometimes.) Others seem to agree which is why those kinds of comments always get downvoted quickly. All the other stuff – sarcasm, jokes – is not always downvoted, it sometimes even receives a lot of upvotes. Don’t expect every joke to be upvoted, even if it’s a witty one. I guess it is consensus that we don’t want to see HN flooded with jokes and sarcasm.
- rick_2047 16y ago
  Why this hypocrisy then? Shouldn't we have equal standards for all the things?
  - davidw 16y ago
    It's not hypocrisy, it's just very subjective. People upvote funny things from time to time, and downvote things that aren't funny often. There's no objective standard for that, obviously, but generally, 'funny' means something fairly new and unique and with some thought behind it, not trotting out some lame old sarcastic joke. Edit: I suppose the moral of the story is: if you're not sure, don't post it.
  - ugh 16y ago
    No we shouldn’t and it’s not hypocrisy. It’s appropriate editorial control. Think how a magazine editor would think. A great profile of Julian Assange might be worthy front page material if it is the first Wikileaks article in months, it probably isn’t if articles about Wikileaks were on the front page every day the whole last month.
CopyrightTroll 16y ago
Nice 'troll' rick but most don't get it.