One of Paul Graham's essays cites the "dumb joke" as the #1 pollutant of discussion threads. Might be "What I've Learned from Hacker News", February 2009, tho

One of Paul Graham's essays cites the "dumb joke" as the #1 pollutant of discussion threads. Might be "What I've Learned from Hacker News", February 2009, though alas Firefox won't load the article due to untrusted encryption. https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html