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are there hn hall monitors that I'm not aware of? like why are you policing people's jokes? For the life of me I will never understand why people voluntarily ta
by anon_tor_12345 6y ago
are there hn hall monitors that I'm not aware of? like why are you policing people's jokes? For the life of me I will never understand why people voluntarily take on the mantle of authoritarian. Do you feel like you're contributing to something by censuring someone for a joke?
- dang 6y agoI get how it could come across that way, but cxr's comment is part of a long tradition of trying to avoid lame internet humor on HN. It's not because people don't like jokes - they just want to avoid the sort of jokes that grow like crabgrass and end up choking out more interesting discussion. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=7609289&sort=byDate&type=story&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- anon_tor_12345 6y agothe archetypal censure of jokes grows like crabgrass just as much as jokes grow like crabgrass (because they're both low effort).