Mostly because we keep hitting the reset button. People continue to complain that easy one-liner jokes consistently dominate the top ranks in Reddit threads, b

Mostly because we keep hitting the reset button. People continue to complain that easy one-liner jokes consistently dominate the top ranks in Reddit threads, but Slashdot already came up with contextual upvotes (Funny, Insightful, etc) years ago. Of course every time someone comes and tries to build a community we end up reinventing online comments from square one...