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Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.
by jason_slack 14y ago
Oh, gosh, please No. Please dont post this influx of April 1st gags. It is a total waste of time and makes HackerNews unusable.
- cnlwsu 14y agoIt may even overshadow the Rails or Java exploit of the week.
- jason_slack 14y agoha, ok, I can grant you that.
- joshka 14y agoJason, I might be a hn n00b comparatively, but I reckon go for it. If you can't have some fun one day a year, what good is living?
- jason_slack 14y agoI just feel like so many other sites cover these April 1 jokes to where we could keep HN on task for its purpose. And "some fun one day a year". I have fun everyday already. I dont need bogus news stories for me to let loose and enjoy life.
- sp332 14y agoSometimes there is one or just a couple of threads made which say "post aprils fools here", which keeps the rest of the homepage clean.
- vidarh 14y agoIt stopped being fun when the volume of them reached the kind of proportions that you can't avoid them anywhere. To me, this is the signal to not visit any "news" site for the following 24 hours.