To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News' Attire

Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by cyberpunk on Saturday April 01, 2017 @05:34PM (#14014305)

Hahaha, this made me laugh.. My good deed for the day has been upvoting a comment to allow someone to change their hackernews header colour.

It's taking me a while to parse this event.. I'm going to turn off the laptop and go get a drink now. Maybe two.

Damn you internets! What have I become!

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by Mz on Saturday April 01, 2017 @05:46PM (#14014348)

I have finally found a good use for April Fools: Advocating silly behavior on HN of a sort that normally gets frowned upon.

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by dang on Sunday April 02, 2017 @12:22AM (#14015765)

That actually does square the circle.

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by Mz on Sunday April 02, 2017 @03:31PM (#14018569)

Every other time I have suggested upvoting someone past a karma threshold so they could do a thing, I got downvoted into the negatives. Because, clearly, someone hitting 250 karma and getting to pick their own header color is an enormous threat to the social pecking order and quality of discussion by completely destroying the signal value of karma ranking.

I shall be back next year to repeat this experiment and see if it works again (assuming I remember).

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by tradersam on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:25PM (#14020030)

Only if HN had RemindMe! 365 days "April Fools upvotes".

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Re:To Celebrate April Fools' Day, Slashdot Wears Hacker News... by Mz on Monday April 03, 2017 @01:26PM (#14024949)

Well, I assume you will have your 250 by then. Just comment and/or post articles. You aren't too far from it.

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