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The community here eliminates it because they don't want to be Reddit. There's lots of silly humour, in jokes and long threads on Reddit and they can be great f
by jgrahamc 6y ago
The community here eliminates it because they don't want to be Reddit. There's lots of silly humour, in jokes and long threads on Reddit and they can be great fun if you enjoy that. HN steers towards more serious discussions and there's been a general attempt to stamp out clever quips and responses as, as fun as they are, they would change the tone of the site significantly.
Having said that one of my most upvoted comments was a parody: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
- wombatmobile 6y agoPretty good. It takes big comedy muscles to write something like that. I suspect HN contributors tend to have spent their 10,000 hours in disciplines where comedy writing doesn't get so much oxygen.
- nunez 6y agoAgreed. This site is one of the few places I trust for holistic discussion. It is VERY hard to find the quality of HN’s discourse on Reddit.
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