Ask HN: Why no sense of humor?

Re:Ask HN: Why no sense of humor? by IsaacSchlueter on Thursday April 23, 2009 @03:57AM (#575271)

Scott, chill, it was tic. I'm sure that you have a sense of humor, but you didn't get my joke, apparently. You see, the thread is asking why HNers have no sense of humor, and... ah, screw it, it loses it if you have to explain it.

The erlang articles were mostly very interesting, and seeing a HN meme flare up and go away just as quickly, especially one that is self-deprecating in poking fun at the stereotype of the HN reader doing everything pg says, was very fun. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it.

The only kind of noise that I really hate on HN is the "hacker news sucks" crap. If you think it's too noisy, get better filters, or help out by flagging the articles that violate the TOS, up-voting the articles that are good, and ignoring the rest.

Complaining about HN in an HN comment is frankly just humorless.

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Re:Ask HN: Why no sense of humor? by scott_s on Thursday April 23, 2009 @08:39AM (#575447)

I got the joke. I just don't think it's a funny joke - which is one of the reasons I'd rather people not try.

I like HN, and I think it's worth explaining how the community works. That includes why (bad) humor is downmodded so often.

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Re:Ask HN: Why no sense of humor? by Celcius on Thursday April 23, 2009 @08:17AM (#575422)

That's just because you don't have any sense of humor.

I find complaining about HN (especially the "whaa to much noise") on HN highly ironic.

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Re:Ask HN: Why no sense of humor? by blinks on Friday April 24, 2009 @12:26PM (#577707)

Like people continually whispering "shhh," creating more noise than there was in the first place?

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