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Comment by rpgmaker | Hacker News Reader

I think the joke got lost on the HN crowd. +1

I'm sorry to be a bit negative, but is there any way we can keep these things on Reddit?

It's not that I don't enjoy it; my late-night Reddit session was all the more enjoyable yesterday because of Rubio and what came from that.

But I specifically like Hacker News because it generally avoids or downvotes this kind of stuff. I just don't see how making HN more like Reddit is good for anyone :-/.

Yeah, I'm with you. This stuff is fun on reddit, but this isn't reddit.

Indeed. I'm actually completely serious about enjoying this stuff immensely on Reddit. It feels like a guilty pleasure at this stage of my life, but after six years and a while before that on Digg, Reddit at this point is part of my (internet) life, my identity even.

I just have this other identity that is HN, and my fear, however unfounded it may be, is that the two will intermingle too much and that I'll have to find yet another new place. And I'm already starting to feel to old for such a move...

For those who got lost, this is a play on US Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio at the last debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9OZ8xHTX7c

I thought the joke is that we behave like if we were on Reddit - except we aren't.

Most probably got the joke, but that doesn't necessarily mean most thought the joke was helpful to the conversation.

Most of us on the other side of the pond probably didn't get the joke (I didn't). And frankly, it's annoying. I like HN especially because it has insightful comments and not a lot of nonsense, memes and whatnot. Let's keep it that way :).

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