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Effectively banning these types of comments is what makes hackernews into exactly what normies think Reddit is like because it trains the readers not to look fo

• HPsquared 5y ago
  Sarcasm on the internet is usually more trouble than it's worth, Poe's Law and all that.
• simondotau 5y ago
  Nonsense, it was a straight-up troll. The fact a comment can masquerade as sarcasm doesn't somehow rehabilitate it. There are a million permutations of unproductive contribution which are already "effectively banned" and those haven't turned Hacker News into Reddit. And your belief that readers need to be trained to look for sarcasm is rather paternalistic and a touch condescending. (Sarcasm has been largely ruined by the internet anyway; see: Poe's Law.)
  • jjeaff 5y ago
    He did recently say publicly that he would be shocked if they didn't get to safer than a human driving this year. So what about my comment was trolling? https://electrek.co/2022/01/31/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-driving-safer-than-human-this-year-5-years-ahead-of-everyone/ https://electrek.co/2022/01/31/elon-musk-tesla-full-self-dri...