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HN Humor Intolerance

Discussions revolve around the Hacker News community's aversion to jokes and humor, with users noting frequent downvotes for witty comments and contrasting HN's serious tone with Reddit's lighter atmosphere.

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Sample Comments

marnett • Sep 27, 2018 • View on HN

Understanding HN is not a place for jokes and quips, I understand your sentiment. But it is pretty humorous.

untog • Sep 6, 2020 • View on HN

EDIT: HN isn’t a place to make jokes

101001010101 • Dec 2, 2011 • View on HN

There we go again. Sense of humour is penalised on HN.

chvid • May 17, 2016 • View on HN

Ok; HN really don't like jokes :-(

count • Apr 22, 2011 • View on HN

Humor isn't typically upvoted on HN. Keep it on reddit, please.

herodoturtle • May 20, 2022 • View on HN

I know it goes against the spirit of HN etiquette, but damn this comment was funny ^_^

AlexFromBelgium • Jun 24, 2012 • View on HN

Humor isn't HN's strong spot :S

firefoxman1 • Apr 2, 2012 • View on HN

I've concluded humor isn't allowed on HN. Seriously, why the downvotes?

jwbensley • Apr 4, 2018 • View on HN

Are you saying humour isn't allowed on HN?

colordrops • Oct 5, 2022 • View on HN

Ugh, not used to humor on HN haha.