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Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.

by rualca 5y ago

rimliu 5y ago
HN is not into jokes very much, need to keep that "we are better than reddit" flag high.
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  Correct, HN is into Marxism, not jokes, comrade.
- kergonath 5y ago
  There’s a lot of jokes here. Usually a bit more subtle than that, though.
- macintux 5y ago
  I think "different from" suffices. One technical social media site without snark and acrimony doesn't seem like too much to ask.
  - dangsface 5y ago
    Because it lacks humanity. It seems like you have to be on the spectrum or the fascist cunt known as dang will come to make sure that the dissemination of information remain bleached and boring. This is why no one likes tech companies. Who will be the first virtue signalling bastard to scream gaslighting?
- throwaway19937 5y ago
  (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965166) is an example of well-received humor; it's one of the top rated comments.
suprfnk 5y ago
Because it’s beating a dead horse.
- mousepilot 5y ago
  A dead horse is a better init system than systemd Downvote away lol
  - dang 5y ago
    Please don't do this here.
skissane 5y ago
I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post). Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't themselves like that, being reminded of it all makes me want to reach for that downvote button. And the topic gets tiring after a while anyway, it has been done to death already.
- mlang23 5y ago
  Finally, cancel culture has a firm grip on Free Software, achievement unlocked!
  - bayindirh 5y ago
    Flamewars of 90s have called, and reminded that it's way older than the cancel culture.
    - mlang23 5y ago
      However, back then, killfiles were not shared amongst users. So if you decided to cancel someone, it only affected your view of a group. These days, we make killfiles a matter of voting, with a very low treshold. What is it? You just need 4 grumpy people and your opinion has just been tanked? Great, conservatives hiding under a left umbrella must really love that.
      - bayindirh 5y ago
        I think discussions about a software project has nothing to do with politics. HN's dynamics are hard to understand at times, but it's not opaque or chaotic.
      - cratermoon 5y ago
        > killfiles were not shared amongst users. My friend, usenet KILL files were absolutely shared. I ran a usenet NNTP server back in the day. There were many killfiles shared and usenet admins could also institute certain kinds of blocks. See http://www.kibo.com/kibokill/ http://www.kibo.com/kibokill/
iSnow 5y ago
I tend to downvote snarky, off-topic jokes here because I want this site to keep a high signal/noise ratio. If you visit the /r/science subreddit, you can see why. The comments used to be excellent, not they are full with lame jokes and anecdotes.
kop316 5y ago
To add to others, I prefer not to have jokes here, as I would rather to come here for a good discussion. I really don't want to have to wade through low effort jokes/memes to find such a discussion.
nobody9999 5y ago
Because having a sense of humor is frowned upon here. Want to laugh? Go to a comedy club.
- gjm11 5y ago
  Having a sense of humour is not frowned upon here. Posting low-effort cookie-cutter jokes is frowned upon here, because (1) they usually aren't actually very funny and (2) empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes.
  - api 5y ago
    > empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes. That also seems to be true of memes, trolling, and political propagandizing. Any forum where these things are allowed quickly becomes nothing but these things.
  - nobody9999 5y ago
    >(1) they usually aren't actually very funny A fair point. I didn't even recognize it as a joke until someone pointed it out. And I'm very easily amused.
- nobody9999 5y ago
  The down votes kind of prove my point. Which is rich, rich irony and quite amusing. Then again, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm very easily amused.
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gmfawcett 5y ago
I don't think they've discovered HN's secret feature yet -- the "joke suppression button." It looks like [-] Click it, and the joke and all its subcomments are instantly rolled up into a highly ignorable format. :)
smhenderson 5y ago
Just look at what a long thread your comment has spawned below. And most, if not all, of these comments have nothing to do with the topic the article is about. It's not just a lack of appreciation for jokes, it actively hijacks the conversation and, as a reader, I have to now start collapsing whole threads and hunting and pecking to get back on topic. And here I am adding to the mess I'm complaining about... I appreciate a good joke and there are definitely appropriate ways to slip one in on HN but this is not one of those and I'd say it's less about it being a joke and more about it being off-topic. Edit: Just to add to this, I just refreshed the page and the majority of the comments here are now replies to the PP about SD and another, similar, joke about how the article must be referring to the NVidia kernel driver. Actual comments about TFA are minimal and the whole post seems to just have been completely taken over by content that's not relevant to the discussion. Now please down-vote me for wasting every one's time by pointing this out!

Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.

by rualca 5y ago

Does anyone know why this comment is being buried? It's clearly a good spirited joke.

rimliu 5y ago

HN is not into jokes very much, need to keep that "we are better than reddit" flag high.

redis_mlc 5y ago
Correct, HN is into Marxism, not jokes, comrade.
kergonath 5y ago
There’s a lot of jokes here. Usually a bit more subtle than that, though.
macintux 5y ago
I think "different from" suffices. One technical social media site without snark and acrimony doesn't seem like too much to ask.
- dangsface 5y ago
  Because it lacks humanity. It seems like you have to be on the spectrum or the fascist cunt known as dang will come to make sure that the dissemination of information remain bleached and boring. This is why no one likes tech companies. Who will be the first virtue signalling bastard to scream gaslighting?
throwaway19937 5y ago
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2965166) is an example of well-received humor; it's one of the top rated comments.

suprfnk 5y ago

Because it’s beating a dead horse.

mousepilot 5y ago
A dead horse is a better init system than systemd Downvote away lol
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't do this here.

skissane 5y ago

I tend to downvote jokes or non-substantive comments about systemd (although I haven't downvoted any of the comments on this post). Like any other software system, anyone is welcome to question or doubt or disagree with systemd's design decisions. But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for. Even if a person making a joke about systemd isn't themselves like that, being reminded of it all makes me want to reach for that downvote button. And the topic gets tiring after a while anyway, it has been done to death already.

mlang23 5y ago
Finally, cancel culture has a firm grip on Free Software, achievement unlocked!
- bayindirh 5y ago
  Flamewars of 90s have called, and reminded that it's way older than the cancel culture.
  - mlang23 5y ago
    However, back then, killfiles were not shared amongst users. So if you decided to cancel someone, it only affected your view of a group. These days, we make killfiles a matter of voting, with a very low treshold. What is it? You just need 4 grumpy people and your opinion has just been tanked? Great, conservatives hiding under a left umbrella must really love that.
    - bayindirh 5y ago
      I think discussions about a software project has nothing to do with politics. HN's dynamics are hard to understand at times, but it's not opaque or chaotic.
    - cratermoon 5y ago
      > killfiles were not shared amongst users. My friend, usenet KILL files were absolutely shared. I ran a usenet NNTP server back in the day. There were many killfiles shared and usenet admins could also institute certain kinds of blocks. See http://www.kibo.com/kibokill/ http://www.kibo.com/kibokill/

iSnow 5y ago

I tend to downvote snarky, off-topic jokes here because I want this site to keep a high signal/noise ratio. If you visit the /r/science subreddit, you can see why. The comments used to be excellent, not they are full with lame jokes and anecdotes.

kop316 5y ago

To add to others, I prefer not to have jokes here, as I would rather to come here for a good discussion. I really don't want to have to wade through low effort jokes/memes to find such a discussion.

nobody9999 5y ago

Because having a sense of humor is frowned upon here. Want to laugh? Go to a comedy club.

gjm11 5y ago
Having a sense of humour is not frowned upon here. Posting low-effort cookie-cutter jokes is frowned upon here, because (1) they usually aren't actually very funny and (2) empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes.
- api 5y ago
  > empirically it seems that communities where that sort of joking is popular are at risk of having it take over until there is nothing but low-effort cookie-cutter jokes. That also seems to be true of memes, trolling, and political propagandizing. Any forum where these things are allowed quickly becomes nothing but these things.
- nobody9999 5y ago
  >(1) they usually aren't actually very funny A fair point. I didn't even recognize it as a joke until someone pointed it out. And I'm very easily amused.
nobody9999 5y ago
The down votes kind of prove my point. Which is rich, rich irony and quite amusing. Then again, as I mentioned elsewhere, I'm very easily amused.

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gmfawcett 5y ago

I don't think they've discovered HN's secret feature yet -- the "joke suppression button." It looks like [-] Click it, and the joke and all its subcomments are instantly rolled up into a highly ignorable format. :)

smhenderson 5y ago

Just look at what a long thread your comment has spawned below. And most, if not all, of these comments have nothing to do with the topic the article is about. It's not just a lack of appreciation for jokes, it actively hijacks the conversation and, as a reader, I have to now start collapsing whole threads and hunting and pecking to get back on topic. And here I am adding to the mess I'm complaining about... I appreciate a good joke and there are definitely appropriate ways to slip one in on HN but this is not one of those and I'd say it's less about it being a joke and more about it being off-topic. Edit: Just to add to this, I just refreshed the page and the majority of the comments here are now replies to the PP about SD and another, similar, joke about how the article must be referring to the NVidia kernel driver. Actual comments about TFA are minimal and the whole post seems to just have been completely taken over by content that's not relevant to the discussion. Now please down-vote me for wasting every one's time by pointing this out!