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Downmod? You resent the understated attempt at humour, or perhaps the deliberate Strunk and White non-compliance? I have read several of Vs books, each of the

• allenbrunson 17y ago
  "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that's the general rule, but i'm going to play along this time, because -1 does seem a bit harsh for what you wrote. humor is risky. it's not that news.yc readers don't like it, it's just that our standards are very high. the ^H^H joke is a threadbare cliche at this point and should be avoided. sometimes you get downmodded for no real reason by a karma troll. if that happens, you really shouldn't complain about it, because within an hour or two somebody will vote you back up in sympathy.