A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes

Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by MasterScrat on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:39AM (#11303389)

This is why they introduced the [serious] tag, which literally prohibits jokes in the thread. This was a very welcome feature.

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Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by emodendroket on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:36AM (#11304214)

Welcome to whom? I'd rather have the wisecracks.

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Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by bonobo on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:37PM (#11306969)

Welcome to the people who want to participate in serious discussions. You still have threads, and whole subreddits for that matter, with jokes. But before this tag, people who wanted a joke-free discussion were unable to do so on Reddit, and had to dig through piles of puns and jokes to get some thoughtful comments. Now we have space for both groups.

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Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by emodendroket on Friday March 18, 2016 @09:13AM (#11311520)

Yeah, but I feel that the combination of jokes and serious discussion is better than either one alone.

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Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by harryf on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:51AM (#11303596)

They could also add a [srsly!?!] tag for when all comments must express outrage

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Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by MasterScrat on Thursday March 17, 2016 @07:10AM (#11303647)

Actually it would make more sense to have tags and filters, so you could prioritize the type of comments you want to see.

I'm too young to have known it but I think slashdot had a system like that?

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Re:A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes by marcosdumay on Thursday March 17, 2016 @09:26AM (#11304152)

It still has.

It's only missing the comments for one to filter nowadays.

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