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Comment by wdmeldon | Hacker News Reader

This got downvoted? Lighten up HN, it's a joke. The same comment on DN would have gotten a ton of upvotes, and the coldness of HN's lack of humor makes this place really off-putting.

Everyone here tries hard to look "smart".

Yeah, and it's actually really anti-intellectual, since a well adjusted person is capable of both humor-depth and logical-depth understanding among many other things.

I really don't want HN to turn into reddit, with half the thread devoted to jokes/memes, so I appreciate self moderation that discourages that.

I can appreciate that point of view. I really wouldn't want that either.

On the other hand, the subthreads complaining about them inevitably take up more space than the offending comments themselves, and are arguably of less value.

Hacker News is already host to memes, trite boilerplate and pseudo-intellectual posing - drawing a line in the sand at humor seems like a futile gesture.

The line is not merely drawn at humor, but you'd better actually be funny if you want to post a joke.

I don't try to look smart at all. I am smart and so don't need to try.

I also appreciate humor. What I don't appreciate are simple Reddit-level karma-grubbing jokes, and I will vote them down every single time.

You should be less cavalier with that broad brush. It isn't appreciated here.

I downvoted you for all the above reasons.

I knew what I was getting myself into.

Excuse my ignorance but what is DN?

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