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"may also lengthen" Great pun
by anshumankmr 6y ago
"may also lengthen"
Great pun
- ratsmack 6y agoWhy does no one here have a sense of humor.
- colordrops 6y agoBecause humor is accepted in every other forum (especially Reddit) and it ends up making every post nearly content-free with a barrage of attempts at humor in a game of one-upmanship.
- anon_tor_12345 6y agofalse dichotomy. somehow every other medium tolerates a little humor and wit without devolving into reddit.
- h0l0cube 6y agoAnd many people, myself including, come here mainly because it has meaningful discussion.
- ratsmack 6y agoI have observed many times over that some of the "well known" people make humorous statements and no one blinks. It definitely feels like a clique operates here in some discussions.
- klyrs 6y agoOh, we do. Topical comments with jokes get upvotes, if they're garnish. Dick jokes are droll, riffing headlines is so overdone it's already got a fork in. If you want funny, though, a potential side effect of vasodilation is migraines bad enough to put a guy right off the mood.
- echelon 6y agoI vouched for this comment as there's nothing offensive in this. Some people don't like humor (I used to be of this opinion), but I think small doses don't hurt anyone.
- junon 6y agoBecause this isn't reddit and the sites rules pretty specifically ask that this sort of humor remains on other platforms. Nobody wants another reddit.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoAre you sure that a bit of humor will downgrade HN to reddit? As long as it's intelligent, it belongs to HN (I'm not sure if this one is though).
- yellowapple 6y agoThe guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, also right there at the bottom of the page) seem pretty silent about any sort of humor, "this" sort or otherwise. Those same guidelines do, however, warn against claiming that HN is turning into reddit, so...
- toastal 6y agoBig if true