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Yes. Deliberately. While not explicitly against the guidelines, jokes are generally considered to not contribute to the conversation.

Jokes are the conversation. The rest is just noise.

100% - These fools take themselves way too seriously.

This is entirely unfair to comedians such as Carlin, who had more to add to the "conversation" than this monoculture.

I, for one, thought the entire weekend drama was hilarious

just because you see a joke you don't like doesn't mean the whole site has no sense of humor