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You’ve been around about as long as me — why are you participating in /r/HN? (That is… why are we talking about this like we’re on Reddit?)
by alanh 14y ago
You’ve been around about as long as me — why are you participating in /r/HN? (That is… why are we talking about this like we’re on Reddit?)
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- res0nat0r 14y agoThank you...I I've voted appropriately as I thought just the same thing (but I am in a catch-22 here as I'm replying to your comment :)
- gojomo 14y agoAnd I've been around twice as long as you! I also understand the reasons for the humor taboo. But there's a sadness about the Yahoo situation that invites joking as a coping mechanism. If we don't laugh, we'll have to cry. Or rant. And speaking of rants: plenty of upvoted, 'serious' comments about this incident are just variants of "HUH-hah, look at Yahoo's latest screwup!" Those can be even worse for reasoned discourse than a few silly quips in one tangent. But HN smiles upon the hyper-critical and mock-aghast sort of rhetorical competition.