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> Shakespeare only wrote 37 plays, Orson Wells only made 64 films, Mozart wrote 68 symphonies, but Disrupting Japan? Well, as of today, Disrupting Japan has 200 episodes.

This is the most alarmingly stupid bit of text I’ve seen on this website in years. It’s wildly disconcerting that there exists some sort of apparatus that allows people to buy top ranking on the front page with utter garbage that clearly has zero value.

What’s the going rate?

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It’s a joke you humourless person. Now to upvote this story purely to spite you and people like you.

I love humor! Can you give a short (5-10 word) explanation of how this is funny enough to make it to number one on this website?

edit: bonus points if you can explain two posts with identical responses within seconds of eachother

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321579

edit: with identical responses to mine, seconds apart.

It's funny because it's an absurd comparison.

It's not at the top of HN because of that specific joke.

So no.

What?

What was the question I asked

Tell me why I should give a shit about your arbitrary word limit in exactly 1424 words please.

How is it you have posted the same responses to me as another account within seconds of eachother?

At least twice?

Isn’t it a joke?

Is it?

Yes.

isn't it a joke?

Is it?

yes?

@dang I’d look into this.

Edit: There are two accounts that are happy to publicly disagree with me within seconds of eachother, and three-six that are are happy to downvote privately within those same seconds.

Maybe I’m magically guilty of having The Wrong Take or there are some people that will kneejerk use their network of accounts to downvote things that aren’t useful to their buddies.

No ... it's really not a giant conspiracy. You're just guilty of being a jerk on a very public website which doesn't take kindly to jerks.

I've downvoted all of your comments on this thread because they are completely unrelated to the subject of the article, and consist solely of a joke spectacularly flying over your head to the point where you're getting aggressive and throwing around conspiracy theories about downvoting rings.

It’s not huge, it’s just a couple people. (I think, they won’t answer basic questions about posting within a second of one another.)

Honestly, I normally wouldn't answer a question that sounds like an invitation to an increasingly bizarre thread with a paranoid person either.

I'll be dipping out of this conversation after this reply.

I am glad that you’re not involved in this chat! I wish you well and encourage you to look into the facts I’ve brought up.

I had written a sarcastic response, but I'll be nice instead. Don't you think two people could independently see that you missed a joke and come up with the very generically phrased response of "isn't it a joke?" to point this out? I mean it's four words. It's certainly a more plausible explanation than being some sort of grand conspiracy involving sockpuppet accounts.

You're humour challenged. But so is most of HN.

Perhaps if you scrolled down to the actual article you would have found it interesting?

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