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Of course he should, but I was attempting to make a joke, since I thought that the parent comment was also a joke (word play on two meanings of the word "mean").

Apparently I failed. Sorry.




i found it funny


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Sorry, I forgot that fun is not allowed [0] on HN.

[0] https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Ud56244PvzUMGoMCMCPAMAHaHw


I think the point is that places exist for jokes that don't add anything, so we can just go do that there, rather than changing the definition of what this is


Nowhere in the guidelines [0] does it say "do not post jokes that don't add anything". It does, however, say:

    Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Comments like yours are usually only found on Reddit.




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