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I did, no worries. There's just some confusion currently as to whether we should be silly or not. It seems like hacker-related silliness in the comments of this submission should be ok.

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Of course we should be silly. As if the question even needs to be asked.

I said the wrong thing again? There's a serious commitment to seriousness around here.

Algorithm for dealing with unhappiness related to your comment scores:

  if not self.curious or not self.spent_at_least_10_minutes_writing_comment( your_comment ):
    self.dont_care()
  else:
    self.wait_until_score_is_less_than( your_comment, -2 )
    self.ask_politely_why_comment_is_bad( your_comment )
    self.sleep()

Sure. But is that Python? You know in Ruby you wouldn't need the parens? It would work nicely for the sleep and dont_care methods since you're not passing any arguments.

I personally like the visual distinction between properties and methods. But it's purely a stylistic choice.

Having an implicit "self" parameter for functions defined within "class Foo:" would be nice though.

To be honest, at first I also didn't like the lack of visual distinction between properties and methods but now I just like the fact that I don't have to type the extra characters. The implicit self is nice too.

Really, if you're not passing functions more often than you call them, you're missing out. :)

In Soviet Russia, seriousness commits to you!

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