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This isn't reddit. Not only will this go over the heads of many HN users here, it's against the site's guidelines.
by junon 5y ago
This isn't reddit. Not only will this go over the heads of many HN users here, it's against the site's guidelines.
- sam0x17 5y agoSo you honestly believe that most users on HN are less intelligent than most users on Reddit? Now that's a hot take.
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoA bit of fun is against guidelines huh? That's news to me.
- warent 5y agoThe guidelines aren't really comprehensive. A lot of the content in HN is curated by the community, which is guided by tribal knowledge and unspoken rules. Fun and jokes are notoriously hard to get across in HN, which actually makes it all the more rewarding when it works. When the "fun" is just completely absent of originality and personality--just another regurgitated meme pattern of zero effort--many people just downvote and flag because the community doesn't want it.
- saagarjha 5y agoHacker News is not anti-fun, it's anti low-effort fun.
- IncRnd 5y agoIt's good that you are more intelligent than those people and yet are still here to help everyone.