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| recommended by 4 users | 2014 | scott_s on: An Update on HN Comments | hacker news | original thread | | ||
| scott_s on Apr 18, 2014 | on: An Update on HN Comments | view on HN | ||
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dang Oct 22, 2022 | on: Hilma af Klint: Swedish mystic hailed as pioneer of… | context
I don't recall if I had those comments in mind, but yes, they're examples of low-quality comment. The problem with stuff like that is that everyone overestimates how funny their jokes are. Mostly they're just lame. The gold standard HN explanation about this was by scott_s many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 |
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DanBC Apr 4, 2018 | on: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company… | context
> People understand this is a joke right? Is it just not funny to you? This comment is perhaps a bit harsh, but explains things well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 > I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise. > I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are." |
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nuclearnice1 Jun 30, 2020 | on: The End of the Redis Adventure | context
Agree. I’d like to thank conjectures, brodouevencode, Bjartr, kungtotte, m0xte, fidelramos, chii and pokot0 for their contributions, but gently suggest none of the jokes were really that funny. Said well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 |
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minimaxir Jun 6, 2016 | on: Send messages on Facebook Messenger as yourself with… | context
A good note about the use of humor in tech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 |
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I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise.
I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."