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Re:Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend by ziml77 on Monday April 14, 2025 @09:13AM (#43680917)
HN doesn't hate humor in general. Many of us just know what happens if you don't downvote away the easy jokes: all comment sections become more comedy than discussion. It's just too easy to make joke comments compared to the difficulty of making a comment that contributes to the discussion.
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Re:Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend by baketnk on Monday April 14, 2025 @10:56AM (#43682022)
in the olden days of slashdot, this was addressed by decoupling "insightful" from "funny". you wouldn't get karma for being funny but you weren't punished for it either.
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Re:Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend by nonrandomstring on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @12:57PM (#43695532)
Good point. Yes I think I miss that of Slashdot too. There's such a thing as a healthy amount of banter, and the good stuff (not overly sardonic) takes the edge off the doom imho.
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