The 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

The 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.