Chrome in 3d

shibido wrote: post #7

shibido wrote: post #2

omg! l33t! t3ll your friend5!!!!! heh ;-)

Do we really need to explain humour this much on HN now to avoid negatives? I was making a joke based on the Cadie blog posts... sheesh.

as a matter of fact, good jokes often get high marks around here. alas, your comment was not funny, and you got downvoted for it.

there's a bit of a double standard here. if you write something that people merely disagree with, it typically won't get downvoted. but if you reach for a joke and fail, you'll almost certainly pay.

a cruel practice, perhaps, but necessary, if you ask me. a disagreeing comment will often make a conversation more interesting. an unfunny comment makes me feel morose. i start to wonder if this is the beginning of a slide into inanity.

i think that's why so many of the april fool's day submissions got killed. few things i encounter during an average day depress me more than a not-funny "joke."

Re: Chrome in 3d

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Post by shibido » Fri, Apr 03, 2009, 11:51 AM UTC

allenbrunson wrote: post #9

shibido wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do we really need to explain humour this much on HN now to avoid negatives? I was making a joke based on the Cadie blog posts... sheesh.

as a matter of fact, good jokes often get high marks around here. alas, your comment was not funny, and you got downvoted for it. there's a bit of a double standard here. if you write something that people merely disagree with, it typically won't get downvoted. but if you reach for a joke and fail, you'll almost certainly pay. a cruel practice, perhaps, but necessary, if you ask me. a disagreeing comment will often m…

Yeah, I know...

I actually don't know why I thought that was at all funny. It serves as a fairly good reminder to take a break every once in a while.

Incidentally, that you mention the April Fools day posts - A lot of them seemed to be re-posts under slightly altered headings, and I agree, a great many of them were fairly pointless also.