[motoboi]

Indeed, fast food comedy is not well received here. I think because it ruins the forum quality in the long run.

I am yet to find another high level forum like this. So, to me, those community guidelines are working pretty well.

So, although I sometimes laugh a little with those comments, I prefer them to be downvoted to oblivion so we continue to keep having amazing and informative comments from others.

[visakanv]

Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it– and then it drives out all the more invested, technical conversations.

We can do the G+ jokes on Reddit. Getting to substance requires a certain rigor and discipline that can seem a little draconian, but makes all the difference.

[benihana]

>Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it

Anyone who has been on reddit for more than five or six years has seen this. It used to be on par with hacker news for discussion. I'm not sure if it has been happening since day one, or if the site reached a critical mass and started going downhill from there. But I definitely saw it happening before the Digg migration.

[archagon]

Ha, did you just coin "fast food comedy"? Because that's a perfect way to describe Reddit et al.!