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One of the things I love about this community is that satire can go completely over the head of many members here.

https://scholarworks.smith.edu/theses/1504/

Seen many funny instances were blatant satire gets hilarious responses from people that treat it as real.

Of course Autistic Savants often takes things far to literally. Took me ages when younger to get the hang of it.

Well done satire will fool any community. That's the definition of good satire. I don't think HN is any more easily fooled than other communities. And frequently HN finds some aspect being ridiculed and shows that in fact it's not nearly as dismissable as the satire would have one believe.

I think the confusion is often because people (like myself) don't read the content past the headline

I'm fairly sure 90% of comments on HN are written by people who haven't even clicked on the link to the article supposedly under discussion. Disclaimer: including myself, though not on this particular occasion.

Which would be fine, no one has to read everything, but for some reason people who only read the headline feel qualified to comment, and this particularly shows with satirical pieces.

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