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Oh... Ok, I will introduce myself before saying that Active Admin is awesome from now on.

• jschuur 15y ago
  As I've painfully discovered myself, being humorous, especially sarcastic or filled with dry humor often attracts downvotes too, no matter how funny you thought the joke was.
  • hartror 15y ago
    The idea is that there are plenty of other places[1][2] to be humourous on the interwebs. By coming down hard on the few instances that are posted it stops entire threads turning into just these amusing but ultimately unproductive comments. [1] http://www.reddit.com http://www.reddit.com [2] http://slashdot.org http://slashdot.org
  • jschuur 15y ago
    I fully understand and agree with the rationale, hartror. It's just a little difficult to reign myself in and exercise the kind of self control needed here. But the inevitable and swift downvotes I've gotten certain helped to drive the point home. I need some kind of Chrome extension that injects a confirmation dialog box that asks 'Are you trying to be funny?' before I post to HN.
  • lotharbot 15y ago
    edw519 regularly says something laugh-out-loud funny that also helps the conversation along, and scores a bunch of points. Other people often say things that are only slightly funny and have no other value to them, and score a bunch of negative points. Funny and contributing = upvoted Not funny and contributing = upvoted Funny and not contributing = downvoted Not funny and not contributing = downvoted Don't make the mistake of thinking funny/not funny is the deciding factor.
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