I disagree. I regularly downvote comments whose purpose is largely for humour. Not because they aren't funny/witty/clever, but because this is Hacker News, not Reddit. Let's keep it that way.

Humor on the internet has a weird way of spreading and just destroying any conversation. So often I go to the comments on reddit hoping for further insight or a different point of view, only to find the top three threads are memes and puns.

However, I did enjoy this limited foray into humor, and appreciate that we can seemingly keep it limited to a couple funny comments, and still have intelligent conversation.

> Humor on the internet has a weird way of spreading and just destroying any conversation.

Agree, and it is interesting because offline, humor has a way of aiding conversations.

Or maybe allow some diversity in the mood of the conversation? There is always a time and a place for humor and non-serious conversation. I get that you don't want this forum to devolve, but it also devolves if you are dead set on a single mode of operation.