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It's Tuesday night, it's late in SF. Still at the office. I felt MS Office Online should have been free from the start. So having a bit of fun, no need to be se
by electic 13y ago
It's Tuesday night, it's late in SF. Still at the office. I felt MS Office Online should have been free from the start. So having a bit of fun, no need to be serious and write 5 paragraph comments analyzing the news, how you feel about the news, and how it impacts the industry. Sometimes being cliché is exactly what is in order.
- corysama 13y agoJokes on HN are strongly discouraged. As much as people like them, their presence creates a feedback loop that drives the noise-to-signal ratio through the roof. Jokes can be made, understood and voted up very quickly. In a democratic situation like HN, this leads to a large volume of replies and up votes that quickly drowns out all relevant conversation. The more threads that feature jokes, the harder it becomes to discourage them in the future. It seems the fate of all vote-based forums to eventually devolve into a sea of memes (HN -> Reddit -> Digg). HN's anti-humor downvote brigade gets a lot of pushback, but they are so harsh because they are doing their best to hold back that tide.
- kevincrane 13y agoNo, I like jokes, don't get me wrong. I'm just kind of sick of the NSA being dragged into subjects that don't warrant it.