as a matter of fact, good jokes often get high marks around here. alas, your comment was not funny, and you got downvoted for it.
there's a bit of a double standard here. if you write something that people merely disagree with, it typically won't get downvoted. but if you reach for a joke and fail, you'll almost certainly pay.
a cruel practice, perhaps, but necessary, if you ask me. a disagreeing comment will often make a conversation more interesting. an unfunny comment makes me feel morose. i start to wonder if this is the beginning of a slide into inanity.
i think that's why so many of the april fool's day submissions got killed. few things i encounter during an average day depress me more than a not-funny "joke."
I actually don't know why I thought that was at all funny. It serves as a fairly good reminder to take a break every once in a while.
Incidentally, that you mention the April Fools day posts - A lot of them seemed to be re-posts under slightly altered headings, and I agree, a great many of them were fairly pointless also.
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I was making a joke based on the Cadie blog posts... sheesh.
there's a bit of a double standard here. if you write something that people merely disagree with, it typically won't get downvoted. but if you reach for a joke and fail, you'll almost certainly pay.
a cruel practice, perhaps, but necessary, if you ask me. a disagreeing comment will often make a conversation more interesting. an unfunny comment makes me feel morose. i start to wonder if this is the beginning of a slide into inanity.
i think that's why so many of the april fool's day submissions got killed. few things i encounter during an average day depress me more than a not-funny "joke."
I actually don't know why I thought that was at all funny. It serves as a fairly good reminder to take a break every once in a while.
Incidentally, that you mention the April Fools day posts - A lot of them seemed to be re-posts under slightly altered headings, and I agree, a great many of them were fairly pointless also.
Google's PR becomes ultra lame on April 1st.