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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by ape4 on Sunday January 25, 2015 @12:22PM (#8943440)
That was a joke you mean downvoters.
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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by RDeckard on Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:09PM (#8943632)
HN doesn't like jokes. It's dry.
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Re:Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative by Stratoscope on Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:47PM (#8943784)
HN has that reputation, but it isn't entirely true.

Some of my highest-voted comments have been pure humor. A few examples, with parent comments included for context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8690893 (86 points, and 24 for the followup comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447007 (43 points)

Even this silly one-liner got 23 points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863205

That one won't make sense out of context, so here's the article it refers to:

http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2014/06/bizarre-secret-...

My point in sharing these is to give some examples of kinds of humor that have gone over well here. Of course as they say, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

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