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Comment by lmm | Hacker News Reader

My account is a several years old. HN is turning into Reddit. These one-liners really are a lot more common than they were even 2-3 years ago.

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As right as you may perceive yourself to be, complaints are less substantive than the original comment is.

If you really believe that, then your own comment is even less substantive than mine.

The meta-discussion has some substance to it IMO; it conveys at least some information and might suggest some actions to take. The original comment has literally none.

(Meta-discussion is marginally poisonous to productive discourse, and on an ideal HN this whole thread would be downvoted, but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat)

> but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat

If your ideals can be so easily threatened then perhaps one-liners are not the problem.

Above-average discourse is fragile almost by definition - mean-reversion is a real thing.

I agree. If I wanted r/technology, I'd go to r/technology. Please, fellow users of HN, downvote jokes.

I never have liked this "HN is serious business" mentality that treats minor humor as a negative to be excised. It makes the community seem very dour.

I like dour. That mentality is one of the things that makes HN different from other communities, and one of the reasons I like HN more than those other communities; I'd rather HN retained this distinctiveness than reverting to the mean.

I always thought it was the smart people, and interesting posts, rather than a lack of anything resembling a smile.

I don't think they're so easy to disentangle.

You sound like you wouldn't be much fun to hang out with at parties.

I'm sorry, you are being downvoted for your reference to "parties". Please refer to the HN Discussion Code of Conduct, section 4 subsection 3(c.R) which states that Real Hackers do not participate in, discuss, or even acknowledge social gatherings known as "parties" except when discussing serious scientific reports centered around research into these social phenomena. This is your only warning.

Personal attacks aren't ok here.

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