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"Jokes and puns aren't appreciated on HN"

You have to pick your time(zone) when deploying them. I generally find that GMT/UTC >=+6 is when a sense of humour failure generally kicks in. At +8 it relents a bit when en_AU kicks in and is reinforced at +11 by en_NZ.



Worst downvotes I ever got, in response to a fellow from Google expressing a very uncontroversial opinion and then making it clear it was only his own opinion, I wrote: "Hi Jim, this is Chet from HR. Let's have a chat on Monday." Even my "Sorry, bad joke. I'm not 'Chet' and I don't work at 'Google HR'" response got downvotes. Many, many responses hating on Google HR in particular and HR in general.




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