pavlov's account was created 3130 days ago; that's 8.5 years. BartSam's account was created 37 days ago.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everyone should read the guidelines really.
>If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
I am on HN since many years, a user just recently. I was not implying that HN turns in to Reddit. I was implying that this comment is worthy Reddit, not HackerNews - a professional website that strives to hold on to some standards.
I have read the guidelines. Really.
There doesn't seem anything in the guidelines saying you shouldn't make jokes. Or it being a professional website for that matter.
This is true. However, while jokes are not expressly against the rules, the community moderation rarely favors them. Personally, I read a lot of Slashdot, and to some degree enjoy the level of humor, political debate, and anonymous commentary there. I find that the signal to noise ratio here is somewhat better. I don't think it likely that anyone would be banned for exclusively making joke comments, but generally I think the expectation is that while informative or insightful commentary may also be humorous, the primary purpose here is not entertainment.
As it turns out, the only website found to have a sense of humour is Reddit. There are no other websites on the Internet on which humour is found in the wild /s