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"I don't see a reason to discourage sarcasm out-of-hand, or any other form of humor."

I would argue that +1 Funny is uniquely responsible for the decline of comments at /. throughout the years. While I agree that high quality content can rescue a humorous post, the previous commenters are right to be critical of humor for humors sake.



I see your point, but you ignored the next few words of my comment: "Based on the merits of the individual comment, sure."

"Humor for humor's sake" is not what I, nor that TEDx talk, was referring to.




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