Re:The first day of HN frontpage
by krapp on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:57AM
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You would have a point if people tended to be wise here, but HN just trades humor for smugness and cynicism. Instead of the top comment being a joke it tends to be a middlebrow dismissal from someone who never bothered to read the article past the headline. The lack of humor doesn't make the comments here more information dense, it just moves the entropy elsewhere and makes it a bit more insufferable.
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Great point, and I agree that it sucks that low-effort "serious" comments are more tolerated than humorous ones. But I also think disallowing jokes has a "chilling effect" that ultimately encourages a greater number of people to either think before they post or not post at all. It's not perfect, and of course I'd prefer if low-effort comments vanished regardless of their tone, but it's waaay easier to get away (or even become a celebrity) with extremely low-effort comments on Reddit, low brow or not.