I will not stop using humor in my posts, ban me.
> 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."
However, there is a clear and marked difference between users "showing me they don't like my humor/post" and having the moderators step in and start warning me to stop. And to imply that this is somehow an ongoing issue with my posts?
No, he can just ban me and get it over with.
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and just so we're clear, had he not made the comment he did, this entire "conversation" would not be occurring.