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He probably has the title of Ring Bearer.
by luckyno13 13y ago
He probably has the title of Ring Bearer.
- lukasm 13y agoYou mean Ring Bear?
- eggoa 13y agoThis new comment approval system is working out great.
- luckyno13 13y agoYes because A)There's tons of conversation going on here in this topic and B)Burn anyone at the stake who wants to make a post that is less than serious (I think this is my one and only time doing that on HN).
- rjurney 13y agoMy precious comments...
- kencausey 13y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449857 If I understand correctly they are per thread and disabled by default.
- lukasm 13y agoNo more jokes on HN?
- chc 13y agoHN has never been a very good environment for jokes. One of the big goals of HN was to optimize for signal, both quality and quantity. Jokes are noise. If you want to do Reddit-style pun threads, you can go to one of the many subreddits that welcomes those. There is no shortage of places to find jokes on the Internet, but there is a severe lack of places where you can find thoughtful comments by knowledgeable people. Paul Graham wrote in one of his essays about Hacker News: The most dangerous form of stupid comment is not the long but mistaken argument, but the dumb joke. … Whatever the cause, stupid comments tend to be short. And since it's hard to write a short comment that's distinguished for the amount of information it conveys, people try to distinguish them instead by being funny. … Bad comments are like kudzu: they take over rapidly. Comments have much more effect on new comments than submissions have on new submissions. If someone submits a lame article, the other submissions don't all become lame. But if someone posts a stupid comment on a thread, that sets the tone for the region around it. People reply to dumb jokes with dumb jokes. (What I've Learned From Hacker News: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html)
- teemo_cute 13y agoI agree. Sometimes, though, a properly inserted joke can dissolve heated arguments. In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) it's called a 'Pattern Interrupt.'
- InclinedPlane 13y agoHN has never been anti-joke but it's always been anti-distraction. You can make jokes on HN but the only way they're not going to be downvoted into oblivion is if they don't distract from the subject or are exceptionally funny.
- sitkack 13y agoBut the approach by pg was a sledgehammer, moderation is a really hard subject. Being able to collapse (and collapsed) by default stuff voted off-topic or below threshold would have worked just well. HN has much to learn or just flat out implement from Reddit. While lobste.rs has much smaller codebase, their tagging and moderation system is way better.
- icosahedronman 13y agoCan I get an invite to Lobste.rs ?
- luckyno13 13y agoNo, I mean Ring Bearer http://www.wedding.com/ring-bearer http://www.wedding.com/ring-bearer
- lukasm 13y agoI know, was joking.