On: My own private Internet: .secure TLD floated as bad-guy-free zone

[joshAg]

  No.
  Nope.  
  No thanks.  
  Not at this time.  
  No way, Jose.  
  Never.

[joshAg → joshAg]

Since it's too late to edit or delete the parent to this comment, I sincerely apologize for attempting to make a joke on hacker news.

[Karunamon → joshAg]

HN is fairly intolerant of any kind of humor, I've found (unless it's the snarky kind). I've been downvoted more than once for trying to crack a joke, in fact I don't even forsee this post faring well, even though it's an attempt to inform someone else of a valid point.

[sneak → Karunamon]

The HNers for Humor Coalition wishes you well. From both of us.

[Karunamon → Karunamon]

Of course, making a comment like that seems to correlate with the downvotes not happening. Perhaps meta-complaining is like the Windows Rule.. every other level of complaint is spared the downvotes.

[K2h → joshAg]

the joke is tolerable if it adds something to the discussion or helps me learn something i didn't already know.

for me, HN is the reference section of the library. it is not that it can't have humor, it should be useful for more than just a laugh.

[EwanG → joshAg]

There must be fifty ways to leave your... ISP?