Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions?

Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by snprbob86 on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:22PM (#2397108)

It's one freaking day of the year. If you insist on being a total curmudgeon, can't you just skip the internet for a day? Come back tomorrow. If you miss one real article, the world will not come to a screeching halt.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by DavidBishop on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:59PM (#2397258)

I guess it's something to complain about. It might be best for some to remember: Hacker News is not work. Reading is a supplement to work. If the Jokes bug you, maybe you can take the day off and get something done.

Furthermore, if it was work, if you can't take 1 day away from it to have a little fun, you are going to going to beat the rest of us into a pine box.

Life isn't about what you get - it's about enjoying what you get.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:03PM (#2397279)

Life isn't about what you get - it's about enjoying what you get.

This is a superb axiom to live by.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by pathik on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:43PM (#2397463)

It's also very unambitious. Life's also about working to get what you want, then enjoying what you wanted so much, then realizing that you wanted something more, and then working harder to get that as well.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:44PM (#2397471)

True. But if during that process you are always by default happy with what you have at any given moment, then you can't lose.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by pathik on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:33PM (#2397670)

If you are always happy with what you have, then, by definition, you don't want anything else. As much as I would love to be happy, the way I see it, if you are always happy, you have already lost. Unless, of course, you have already made your billions.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:03PM (#2397783)

I'm happy now. I imagine I'd be more happy if I had more stuff/cash, for some definition of happy. Therefore it's good now and it only gets better.

The problem starts when you decide that you don't have enough, and this makes you unhappy. Then you pursue the stuff thinking it'll make you happy. Starting from that viewpoint, I don't think it ever will.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by phernandez on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:05PM (#2397793)

I wish I could down vote this.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by jarek on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:58PM (#2397764)

I want what I have.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by brk on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:32PM (#2397418)

There is nothing wrong with submitting really well played April Fools stories (IMO). But we don't need to see EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM posted here, just like we don't expect to see EVERY SINGLE startup news blog story posted here.

Curate things a little bit, don't just post-flood and expect it all to be sorted out with votes.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by cletus on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:13PM (#2397333)

It would be bearable if more than 0.1% of the submissions weren't inane rubbish.

I always like those years when April 1 falls on a weekend. And, to paraphrase Homer, what's the chances of April 1 being on a Saturday? Must be 1 in 1000.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by rdl on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:22PM (#2397383)

You're complaining that the submissions are 10x better on 1 April than on every other day? :)

(/classic vs. /new is such a shock)

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by jbanko on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:17PM (#2397837)

First of all, "not using the internet for a day" is not really an option for many people. It's like telling someone that doesn't like traffic to "just not drive".

I think the frustration arises from the fact that these stories are becoming unescapable. They're popping up on every news source, and every Twitter stream. It's almost impossible not to see them popping up everywhere. See it once, fine. See it again? And again? And again? It starts to get annoying. HN happens to be one channel where venting these frustrations is relatively easy.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by InclinedPlane on Friday April 01, 2011 @03:15PM (#2397587)

It'd be fine if a: the number of april fools jokes weren't that large and b: most of the jokes were actually funny. Instead what we get is a joke where every amateur lamester abuses their powers and makes the internet much less useful for a day without actually generating anything humorous. A few folks know how to do April 1st jokes well (google, thinkgeek, etc.) but most folks don't seem to know how to keep the humor at the right level.

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Re:Can we skip the lame April Fool's submissions? by AlexC04 on Friday April 01, 2011 @01:51PM (#2397220)

"Hipster" is the word that came to my mind. "Too cool for the internet"

Oh well. I like them.

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