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Aww, HN takes itself so seriously...

• svrocks 15y ago
  well of course, they're changing the world one daily deal at a time. what has nuclear engineering ever done for society?
  • sliverstorm 15y ago
    Certainly not as much as Groupon
    • sukuriant 15y ago
      you forgot your </sarcasm>
• DavidSJ 15y ago
  We just don't want it to turn into reddit.
  • polynomial 15y ago
    Cannot upvote enough.
  • awakeasleep 15y ago
    That part of HN is already worse than Reddit, though.
  • knieveltech 15y ago
    Yeah, injecting a little humor into the discussion around here would really ruin the place. Edited to add: may you dour bastards choke on something.
    • mkelly 15y ago
      This made my day, thanks. :)
  • jokermatt999 15y ago
    My thoughts on it: you can find humor anywhere on the internet. It's much harder to find decent discussion. When humor and decent discussion try to coexist, humor tends to crowd out the discussion. Why bother posting detailed information about what kind of reaction is going on when you can make a simple joke about nuclear power and get as much karma? Why bother posting something intelligent when it will be buried below puns? I used to think HN downvoting humor was bad, but I've really come to agree with it after looking at some attempts at serious discussion on reddit. Without fail, by the third comment or so, someone will derail it with a predictable joke or pun. Humor is easy. Interesting comments are not.