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It's physically painful for me to read annotations by people
who mistake joke ideas as ernest ones (not to be confused
with people who post tongue-in-cheek "straight man" responses to joke ideas,
as those are the height of hilarity).
Users should have to earn the right to annotate by passing some
kind of humor Turing test.
Experiments on this very idea
http://www.wired.co...html?tw=wn_index_10
You might not be as good as you think. [dbmag9, Feb 14 2006]
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My God! "ernest"! Oh my God! How could you do such a thing! This is plainly outrageous and we'll be having no more of that! Simply and outrageously plain as day here in this day and age. Unbelievable! Exactly the kind of thing as an example of what I'm talking about. Seemingly without void or consequence at the very moment of dynamic, scientific and rational bereavement. Speciation notwithstanding, incongruously devoid of any popsicle defillibration Fahnstock clip. |
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*Notes several annotations have been deleted* |
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Nice of you to oblige, Peter, by providing an example of the sort of anno to which Mr. Jonez refers. |
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The joke ideas are generally far lamer than the serious ideas. Don't encourage them. |
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You are all funny and clever. Life has meaning now that
your rapacious wit has illuminated the dark ignorance
which is society. You must be better than everyone else. |
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That's exactly the sort of annotation the author of this idea had in mind, I suspect. |
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But..there's nothing sarcastic there. It's all true, every word. |
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[MEScherer] - Actually, people on horseback are better than everybody else, but that's besides the point for purposes of this discussion. |
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