Basically it's that people overestimate how funny their jokes are, and that sort of internet humor grows like kudzu, so HN users are sensitive to the need to contain it, a bit like weeding a garden. Non-obvious witticisms do fine on HN—they're just rare.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Basically it's that people overestimate how funny their jokes are, and that sort of internet humor grows like kudzu, so HN users are sensitive to the need to contain it, a bit like weeding a garden. Non-obvious witticisms do fine on HN—they're just rare.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...