[freehunter]

See this is the problem with press releases of scientific research. If they had said "we think we've got it", people would be clamoring that the Higgs boson particle was found, when it wasn't. If they say (as they did) that they saw signs of it but are hesitant to make claims of its existence until they have firm proof, people make ignorant statements like the one above.

[afterburner]

Your point is valid, but personally I didn't read the comment as ignorant. What part of it is not true?

[schrototo]

The insinuation that it's all just done for the grant money.

[afterburner]

Nahh, I don't see that. They're just thankful that's all! :)

[afterburner]

HN... no sense of humour...

[redthrowaway]

A common misperception. Humour on HN isn't verboten as such, it just needs to be carefully cloaked in some sort of substantive contribution to the discussion. It's empty responses, not funny ones, that draw the downvotes. The kind of humour that predominates on other websites, unfortunately, happens to be of the empty variety and so recent immigrants from there tend to draw flak for one-liners that don't convey any information.

SNR is prized and cultivated around here. That doesn't rule out humour per se, but it does considerably shrink the set of humourous responses that are appreciated.

[afterburner]

blah blah blah. I happen to DISAGREE that "The insinuation that it's all just done for the grant money". The insinuation is jokes. Hence the lack of a sense of humour. The original objector didn't just not like the TLDR comment... he didn't get it and read into it way too much negativity. And I happen to think he was wrong about that.

[msbarnett]

It has nothing to do with humor, it's about noise. You can be funny while also contributing to the conversation, but posting jokes instead of contributing will tend to get down voted.

[Elrac]

It's the decidedly dismissive tone some people have a problem with.

[afterburner]

Any TLDR summary is dismissive in nature... I guess I filter that out as "for the jokes".

[nixxle]

TL;DR: Something about marketing and science.

[carbocation]

Welcome to HN. HN is, generally, a long-form place. When you express full ideas, it's appreciated. When you express non-obvious ideas, it's appreciated. And when make meme-oriented jokes that rely on willfully misunderstanding science, technology, or the human endeavor, you can expect to get downvoted.

It's a place with its own set of customs, and I think you'll like it as you become more familiar with them.

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