[rockemsockem]

It's definitely funny. Save the paternalism for your kids

Don't run random shell commands you find in the comment section folks.

[mmastrac]

I know a handful of non-tech users that have been fooled by this over the years. Destructive pranks are not funny, and you don't know what valuable data you're putting at risk.

There are plenty of amusing pranks that don't result in random data loss.