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Comment by NotYourLawyer | Hacker News Reader

Please don’t turn HN into reddit.

I don’t think a little light-hearted pun thread turns HN into Reddit, especially when the title of the article itself is a pun.

Not justification, simply observation: I would hope that anyone reading the title would get the reference but I’ve been surprised before. This thread is an additional clue to the uninitiated that they may have missed something.

I mean, look at the replies underneath GP. They are others just piling on with the puns and adding zero value to the conversation.

There are many different kinds of value. Humor, even puns, has value to some, even if you don’t value it.

Yes let's not ever have any fun here ever when a journalist comes up with a very clever headline.

I agree that if every thread had a joke it would ruin things, but the occasional joke when warranted is just fine.

i was willing to ignore the pun

i was even willing to pass the thread of puns without commenting, just doling out up and down votes as necessary

but "very clever" is a bridge too far, i don't think this even crosses into "a little clever" territory

> a bridge too far

A Wheatstone bridge?

I agree. The joke-per-thread count needs to be less than one or HN will devolve into chaos.

Reddit is legit garbage though.

> Reddit is legit garbage though

That is a pretty broad statement, and a low-quality comment for HN. Ir would be more suited as a comment in a Reddit default sub.

As for the quality of Reddit, yes, the default experience sucks, since the demographic for r/popular is mostly high-school kids.

Once you unsubscribe from the defaults and subscribe to well-moderated special interest subs, your experience will be completely different.

+1 from my experience on r/flying and r/gliding. I ignore almost everything else.

Two of my favourite subreddits as well. Aerospace subreddits in general seem to attract a higher standard of post.

Interestingly, I am also a subscriber to r/flying. Excellent sub. r/aviation and r/aerospace are pretty good too.

The consequences of allowing that is seen in the other responses to the GP: lots of useless fluff comments.

So yes, please leave that stuff on reddit.

So collapse the one thread it's in?

Not to worry, if this were Reddit, I would be replying with a Breakfast Club fist pump gif. Not possible here.

No need to get all reactive.

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