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Since it's too late to edit or delete the parent to this comment, I sincerely apologize for attempting to make a joke on hacker news.

• Karunamon 14y ago
  HN is fairly intolerant of any kind of humor, I've found (unless it's the snarky kind). I've been downvoted more than once for trying to crack a joke, in fact I don't even forsee this post faring well, even though it's an attempt to inform someone else of a valid point.
  • sneak 14y ago
    The HNers for Humor Coalition wishes you well. From both of us.
  • Karunamon 14y ago
    Of course, making a comment like that seems to correlate with the downvotes not happening. Perhaps meta-complaining is like the Windows Rule.. every other level of complaint is spared the downvotes.
• K2h 14y ago
  the joke is tolerable if it adds something to the discussion or helps me learn something i didn't already know. for me, HN is the reference section of the library. it is not that it can't have humor, it should be useful for more than just a laugh.