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Could we kill all of the stupid April Fools' articles?

• dang 13y ago
  What a coincidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506793 Could you all take care of this one as test case, please? (Edit: That was harsher than I should have been. Sorry.)
  • zbowling 13y ago
    Seems a bit unnecessary.
    • dang 13y ago
      You mean piling on a specific case? You're right. That was a mistake. It's going to take me a while to get my balance with the public moderation thing, and I overdid it in this case. Sorry to all and especially the OP.
• antihero 13y ago
  Oh loosen up. I find it's something a bit different to look forward to one day a year. It's never the height of comic genius, no, but it's a bit of fun in an otherwise pretty dry industry.
  • zimpenfish 13y ago
    Thing is, though, it's the same jokes every year and after 25 years of Internetting, it's thoroughly damned boring and tedious.
    • antihero 13y ago
      This is what the down arrow is for. If enough people agree with you, then these articles will not appear on the front page. Problem solved.
      • zimpenfish 13y ago
        Sadly, I have no down arrow (yet) and flagging seems over the top.
      • ColinWright 13y ago
        There is no ability to down-vote submissions.
• zimpenfish 13y ago
  Just consider April Fools' articles as a handy guide to people you should unfollow, sites to remove from RSS, businesses to not give your money to, etc.