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Review: Christensen is the best speaker I've ever heard, a paragon of equality. After hearing his deeply enlightened views on women in the workplace, my whole

Review: Christensen is the best speaker I've ever heard, a paragon of equality. After hearing his deeply enlightened views on women in the workplace, my whole perspective on hiring and employee management changed. Absolutely recommended five stars A++. XKCD: http://xkcd.com/958/ http://xkcd.com/958/ EDIT: Let this be a lesson to other companies out there, vet the people you book for...anything.

dredmorbius 14y ago
Humor, irony, and subtlety, even with the xkcd link, are generally lost on the HN crowd.
- unimpressive 14y ago
  It's funny because that comment shifts every half an hour or so between getting a few upvotes and then getting a few downvotes. Even if I end up with some downvotes in the end it's worth it just to watch the lovers and haters contest each other. EDIT: It's too bad people can't leave a reason for up/down voting, it would be interesting to see weather people actually think I believe that, or if they just didn't think it was funny.
  - spacemanaki 14y ago
    Although I think that XKCD comic is funny, I downvoted you for the reasons makeramen pointed out.
  - makeramen 14y ago
    I'm staying neutral on this one, but I can imagine that may people don't think this comment contributes much to thoughtful discussion of the topic. Promoting these comments, or even not downvoting them creates a culture where these comments become accepted. I can see a comment like this (if upvoted) easily starting one of those "pun trains" commonly seen on reddit. I don't see anything specifically wrong with the ironic humor of the comment, HN does need to lighten up sometimes, but if we let one of these get upvoted... it will only lead to many more by precedent. The line has to be drawn somewhere. I personally wouldn't want to see a HN where each topic has 10+ "witty/ironic/humorous" comments. I go to reddit for that.
    - unimpressive 14y ago
      >I can see a comment like this (if upvoted) easily starting one of those "pun trains" commonly seen on reddit. It actually did, there's a copycat at the bottom of the page. Which I downvoted. I actually felt bad about that aspect. A joke told twice or more is spam IMO. And while good natured spam is fine on Reddit as you say, on HN it dilutes the signal to noise ratio.
  - shasta 14y ago
    Your comment is at the bottom of a long page, which adds latency to it being reviewed. When it's in the positive it gets downvotes by people who didn't think it was very funny and people who don't want to encourage that kind of joking. When it's negative it gets sympathy upvotes, like the one I just gave you.

dredmorbius 14y ago

Humor, irony, and subtlety, even with the xkcd link, are generally lost on the HN crowd.

unimpressive 14y ago
It's funny because that comment shifts every half an hour or so between getting a few upvotes and then getting a few downvotes. Even if I end up with some downvotes in the end it's worth it just to watch the lovers and haters contest each other. EDIT: It's too bad people can't leave a reason for up/down voting, it would be interesting to see weather people actually think I believe that, or if they just didn't think it was funny.
- spacemanaki 14y ago
  Although I think that XKCD comic is funny, I downvoted you for the reasons makeramen pointed out.
- makeramen 14y ago
  I'm staying neutral on this one, but I can imagine that may people don't think this comment contributes much to thoughtful discussion of the topic. Promoting these comments, or even not downvoting them creates a culture where these comments become accepted. I can see a comment like this (if upvoted) easily starting one of those "pun trains" commonly seen on reddit. I don't see anything specifically wrong with the ironic humor of the comment, HN does need to lighten up sometimes, but if we let one of these get upvoted... it will only lead to many more by precedent. The line has to be drawn somewhere. I personally wouldn't want to see a HN where each topic has 10+ "witty/ironic/humorous" comments. I go to reddit for that.
  - unimpressive 14y ago
    >I can see a comment like this (if upvoted) easily starting one of those "pun trains" commonly seen on reddit. It actually did, there's a copycat at the bottom of the page. Which I downvoted. I actually felt bad about that aspect. A joke told twice or more is spam IMO. And while good natured spam is fine on Reddit as you say, on HN it dilutes the signal to noise ratio.
- shasta 14y ago
  Your comment is at the bottom of a long page, which adds latency to it being reviewed. When it's in the positive it gets downvotes by people who didn't think it was very funny and people who don't want to encourage that kind of joking. When it's negative it gets sympathy upvotes, like the one I just gave you.