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I personally am tired of the April Fools stuff too but I have enough faith in the HN community/mechanism to trust that only those things deemed worth it will make the front page. I'm not against humour either, so can't/won't object if good/funny/clever April Fools links get posted.

tl;dr: special measures not required, IMHO.

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The front page has never solely been the product of the community. It has always been curated, if largely unobtrusively. Part of my aim here is to appeal to the community to participate more in that. It's not just a question of individual preference (upvote) but of the culture of the site and the intellectual curiosity we're trying to optimize for.

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