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Agreed. It's such a shame that HackerNews doesn't let you post animated GIFs - I think it'd really add a lot of value to the discussions here.

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I'm hoping this is sarcasm since I don't think I've seen a single intelligent discussion in my life that was helped along by a funny GIF.

Not to say there's anything wrong with funny GIF's, but I come to HN exactly because it moderates away that sort of stuff.

It was sarcasm. Sorry I forgot the <sarcasm> tags - I'll be more careful in future.

You forgot them again.

He only forgot to close it.

You guys are a tough crowd sometimes. </sarcasm>

If only you could post animated GIFs, then you could have added one that indicated sarcasm.

You forgot your closing tag :)

There is a reason why i have a extension installed in Firefox just for the ability to say when a gif is to play.

Indeed. I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

The very one.

Technically, it will let you post them as links, it just won't upload and embed them. But a plugin or a userscript would fix that, provided they're posted somewhere with an easy to deal with API like imgur.

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