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That's it, I'm starting a twitter account for upvoted jokes on HN. That's quite an achievement.
by rjtavares 6y ago
That's it, I'm starting a twitter account for upvoted jokes on HN. That's quite an achievement.
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- Jenz 6y agoLink!
- rjtavares 6y agohttps://twitter.com/HumorHn https://twitter.com/HumorHn
- logicOnly 6y agoJokes are usually deleted by mods. But I noticed if the mods like something, rules don't matter.
- vmception 6y agoLike the Apple App Store! HN is a an uncanny reflection of the tech sector in its current state, same people
- brk 6y agoOverall, HN has always been supportive of original, on-topic, relevant, insightful humor. That means though that any kind of meme-ish, repetitive, or obvious joke is going to fail. Basically HN in a great place for techie jokes that are essentially unique to this one tiny corner of the internet. The 4 or 5 we get per year are often some of the best content.
- SilasX 6y agoRight, I would say there's a difference between a low-effort joke/meme/pun vs a biting critique done as a joke. It this case, the criticism was, Apple products will narrowly optimize for something pleasant (well-restedness) at the cost of what you really want (getting to work on time). This is a very common complaint[1], and it's kind of witty to joke about them doing it by accident here, when it's what they deliberately do in other contexts. [1] Examples: making the URL bar look nice and minimal at the cost of you knowing where you are in a site, removing the scroll bar at the cost of knowing where you are in a page or how to move it, making the mouse unusuable when charging just so you don't have a hole on the top.
- Zak 6y agoI note that the rules are "guidelines", not "rules", and I think that's deliberate. There's meant to be an element of human judgement that can't necessarily be spelled out in advance. Allowing things that you might not inspect seems like the inverse of https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/ https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
- vmception 6y agoExcept if you ever challenge the guidelines they magically become rules, consistently. I don't think we are even supposed to talk about that since its "unsubstantive", when convenient - which is always the case to the people that don't want to be challenged on it.
- robocat 6y agoAt least some of the guidelines are hard rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482110
- Zak 6y agoI note that while dang writes there that it's a hard rule, the comment it was in referenced to wasn't killed. That's different from my understanding of what a hard rule is; in communities I moderate, I will always remove content that goes against something I consider a hard rule. Most of the HN guidelines are subject to a fair amount of human interpretation.
- rjtavares 6y agoFor everyone that wants to follow it: https://twitter.com/HumorHn https://twitter.com/HumorHn
- rewtraw 6y agohttps://twitter.com/shit_hn_says https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says the best humor is the kind that lacks self awareness
- rjtavares 6y agoThat is definitely more useful. My version will have a couple of tweets a year at most...
- buzzerbetrayed 6y agoOr the kind that is presented with absolutely 0 context. Most of those tweets are pretty funny, but I can't help but think that a lot of them wouldn't be so hard to read if we knew the context in which they were said.
- em-bee 6y agoi may be able to contribute one or two to that list