4 ms·
M-x butterfly makes the process a bit easier.
by zacharypinter 16y ago
M-x butterfly makes the process a bit easier.
- xd 16y ago:D The story was humour based .. you reckon the downvoters missed that bit?
- chc 16y agoNo, I think they got it. As a rule, pointless jokes that don't add to the conversation don't tend to fly on Hacker News. It's not that jokes are entirely forbidden, just that they have to be insightful or very clever or they will be downvoted to hell. It's part of the site's culture of guarding the signal-to-noise ratio. For the same reason, content-light comments like "Awesome!" or "^ This" will also get blasted with downvotes. Why yours in particular was considered slightly worse than its parent, I'm not positive, but I suspect it's just because everyone's heard butterfly jokes like that before.