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Did dang promote this to the front page? :) Seriously tho... shout out to dang for all the hard work he does. (Please don't vote me up if you agree - I don't
by Jaruzel 6y ago
Did dang promote this to the front page? :)
Seriously tho... shout out to dang for all the hard work he does.
(Please don't vote me up if you agree - I don't want the karma - just comment instead...)
- fsflover 6y agoUpvotes are not just for karma, they also show that you say relevant/important things and that people agree with you.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoIMO, the most important work that upvotes and downvotes do is to move comments up and down the page. In that context, HN consensus on downvoting jokes makes more sense. I like a good joke, but they belong on the bottom of the page after the "serious" conversation. It's unfortunate that it's overloaded with karma, but complicating the upvote/downvote system has other drawbacks.
- inopinatus 6y agoCounterpoint: half my upvotes are from humour, and some topics cry out for a lightening of tone. Unsurprisingly, I’ve found levity is best received when incorporating a kernel of fact or observation. Also, timezone matters. Jokes are easy. Comedy is hard.
- vagrantJin 6y agoAgreed. Humour is a good part of good conversation and an excellent way to provide insight without seeming to be condescending and/or obnoxious. That being said,it does take skill to squeeze in a dad joke in a discussion of abstract computing problems related to 8081s and I'll go on a limb that HN not lenient on badly executed D-jokes as say reddit would for the attempt.
- scott_s 6y agoI have a saying on this topic: you’re not as funny as you think you are. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=scott_s%20not%20funny&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- abfan1127 6y agowhat about relevant/important things that many people don't agree with? Preventing any community from becoming 1-sided seems like a hard problem to solve, but no less important.
- pjc50 6y agoOne of the things that one can learn from HN is how to do this without necessarily having a confrontation.
- Dirlewanger 6y agoThat's literally what they're meant for, but in practice it's an agree/disagree button, albeit not as abused as reddit's is.