Well I think "one-liner" here adds more weight to "substanceless" and was not indented to be taken literally:
- it has no useful meaning in a media you can resize.
- adding dots (.) does not noticeably change the meaning, you could replace with a comma : "Oh thanks goodness, I new…", allowing cheating on the fight rules. I don’t think that’s desirable way we want to interact as a HN-user-community (personal opinion)
- taking the literal read anyway, I see one line and two sentences right now. It’s a one liner. (not English native, may I missed a secondary meaning?)
Dang clarify it bellow the post in linked and cite scott_s, none of which talking about the length of the joke but both referring to noise.
I personally also found it funny BUT I also saw like 10 substanceless not-so-funny jokes today on HN. INHM problem is not the joke itself but the emptiness of the post if you take the joke aside.
- it has no useful meaning in a media you can resize.
- adding dots (.) does not noticeably change the meaning, you could replace with a comma : "Oh thanks goodness, I new…", allowing cheating on the fight rules. I don’t think that’s desirable way we want to interact as a HN-user-community (personal opinion)
- taking the literal read anyway, I see one line and two sentences right now. It’s a one liner. (not English native, may I missed a secondary meaning?)
Dang clarify it bellow the post in linked and cite scott_s, none of which talking about the length of the joke but both referring to noise.
I personally also found it funny BUT I also saw like 10 substanceless not-so-funny jokes today on HN. INHM problem is not the joke itself but the emptiness of the post if you take the joke aside.