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Comment by xanthor | Hacker News Reader

Sure is Reddit in here.

Jesus Christ, no kidding. That was almost painful to see on here. If anyone is wondering, this is when it's appropriate to hit a thread with a barrage of down votes.

Sure is lack of humor around here. Is there an unwritten rule at HN that if something is chuckle-worthy, it's automatically not worth seeing?

Downvote away!

Well, here are, for example, these[0] posts, chuckle-worthy and worth seeing (thought-provoking, demonstrating how wrong yet confident we often are when judging innovative ideas and projects). While these[1] short remarks IMO better belong to Reddit.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624604 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624721 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624648 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624793

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3626067 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3624808 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3625825

There are two problms with type-[0] comments. 1) They lead to type-[1] comments. 2) Humor posts are too easy to upvote, and can drown insightful or informative posts.

Disclaimer: I posted on of the [0] comments, and came back here to apologize when I saw how many upvotes it got.

No, all of these are a waste of everyone's time.

That's not what occurred here. What we have is a dozen people chiming in with short, "funny" comments that add nothing to the discussion. It was maybe a step away from a classic pun-thread and that is most certainly unwelcome. We don't dislike humor, but maybe we know when it's appropriate and when it's just nonsense spewed onto a page, over and over.

It does add something to the discussion, and rather succinctly at that.

It shows the type of dissent/criticisms new ideas hear. Some of these retorts did seem very reasonable back then. There is perhaps something to be learned from this hindsight.

Most of us have heard these common criticisms a dozen times or more. Merely writing them, one after to another, so that you can stand back and gaze at the irony you've just fabricated is not insightful and it doesn't add to the discussion.

A single commenter could have succinctly identified that this is one of those rare occassions where the common wisdom of startups did not apply, and in fact practically spat in the face of it. We didn't need all the noise or attention seeking.

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