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I'm relatively new here, is it common for HN to be flooded with a single topic for a day? It's rather annoying.

• DanielBMarkham 18y ago
  The creator of the site in another thread said the site was running slow due to a sudden influx of traffic, and suggested we try to talk about something like Erlang that wouldn't be so interesting. Yes, it is very unusual. In almost two years I've never seen it happen. BTW, in general, jokes are not done here -- it's mostly serious stuff about technology and startups. ("things a hacker might be interested in") In this case, it was a simple suggestion that got way out of hand. So if you make a joke in a thread, apologize and try to say something interesting. Otherwise they'll down-vote you.
  • tvon 18y ago
    Understood. Topical, content-laden jokes only. The Erlang response does sound like good and proper geek humor though. Well played HN, well played.
    • DanielBMarkham 18y ago
      Yes. Now we will go through the obligatory 30 posts of belly-button gazing while we ask ourselves: is it really okay to tell an Erlang joke like this? What if we keep it up? Should we have inside jokes? Doesn't it turn people off? Do we want everybody and their brother on here? Why not Haskell jokes, or Scala? Won't the site turn into some kind of vote-em-up chaotic monster with barbarians at the gate instead of the happy, friendly, hacker-oriented place we know and love? Etc.
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