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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by krapp on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:36AM (#10191312)
Humor is not intellectually stimulating, and has been optimized away in favor of elitist posturing. Memes are for the normals on Reddit. Hacker News is serious business.
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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by mikeash on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:07AM (#10191510)
Nah, HN is totally fine with humor. But it has to actually be funny.

Unfortunately, for unfunny people, it's easy to confuse this with "no humor allowed."

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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:09AM (#10191521)
Not quite. I think that HN is such a diverse group, its hard to tell sarcasm from a straight answer. Especially in a text forum. So its darned confusing.
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Re:John McAfee announces he's running for President by mikeash on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @10:16AM (#10191561)
I'd say both. There's lots of sarcasm that gets missed, and also lots of unfunny attempts at humor that are obvious in their nature.
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