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At the risk of getting too meta, the words "joke" "funny" and "humor" don't appear on the HN Guidelines[0] page at all. Nothing in there about staying 100% ser
by jachee 6y ago
At the risk of getting too meta, the words "joke" "funny" and "humor" don't appear on the HN Guidelines[0] page at all. Nothing in there about staying 100% serious 100% of the time.
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- fwip 6y agoI mean, the second sentence of the "In Comments" section: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. In this case it's snarking at the consulting company, but is that alright because they're not actually involved in the story or thread?
- jrh206 6y agoJokes aren’t necessarily snarky - I don’t read any malicious undertone from this joke, which I think is necessary to be considered snarky