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Welcome to HN, one of the few Internet forums where humor is actively discouraged and unfailingly frowned upon (with the possible sole exception of idlewords[1]).

Dear HN users, make yourselves a favor and stop taking everything, including yourselves, so seriously.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords

> How about we allow clickbait only on Sundays. Then during the rest of the week we can tell all the submissions with questionable titles to “Save it for Clickbait Sunday.”

Thank you for the idea, but no thank you

I'd rather have interesting posts like this in moderation, not a free-for-all with lower quality posts.

It was an attempt at humor, just like the tweets in the submission. I was trying to gently poke fun at the fact that some portion of hn will call anything a bit unexpected "clickbait".

No jokes allowed. HN is srs bsns >:(