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Downvote explanation requested.
'Twasn't me, but I would guess some people want comments to have a point other than a joke.
Yeah, I know... I just wanted to get the culprit to come right out and say that, in the hope that they would recognize how silly it sounded. There seems to be a voting bloc here on LW that is irrationally opposed to humor, and it's always bugged me.
Makes plenty of sense to me. Jokes are easy, insight is hard. With the same karma rewards for funny jokes and good insights, there are strong incentives to spend the same time thinking up ten jokes rather than one insight. Soon no work gets done, and what little there is is hidden in a pile of jokes. I hear this killed some subreddits.
Also, it wasn't that funny.
Yeah, I'm not saying jokes (with no other content to them) should be upvoted, but I don't think they need to be downvoted as long as they're not disruptive to the conversation. I think there's just a certain faction on here who feels a need to prove to the world how un-redditish LW is, to the point of trying to suck all joy out of human communication.