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Hacker News is professional no joke news service. Jokes are modded down because of the signal to noise ratio.
by orionblastar 4y ago
Hacker News is professional no joke news service. Jokes are modded down because of the signal to noise ratio.
- thomassmith65 4y agoHumorous comments here do get upvotes when they are actually insightful or witty. If someone wants to read pedestrian wise-cracks or wacky memes, there are whole websites dedicated to that.
- ksaj 4y ago"Insightful" is the key word. The kind of joke that can only derail a perfectly good post and conversation is well avoided here because once you hit the cynical "huck huck" post, the rest of the thread is meaningless and devolves further and further until people finally stop responding to it, and there is no longer any interest in reading the other threads. There are times a humourous observation, quip or quote is exactly what the doctor ordered. But online, that is nowhere near as common as the very tiresome "huck huck" type that nearly always can be interpreted as "my self-assumed humour is more important than what this post is about" or "let's ignore the post altogether and just regale in my self-assumed sense of humour instead!"