<story><title>Can we skip the lame April Fool&apos;s submissions?</title><text>Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it&apos;s real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool&apos;s submissions.&lt;p&gt;Can we just skip it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>What do you think, 2.5/10? I didn&apos;t put a lot of effort into it.</text></item><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>you sly dog!</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>There&apos;s a SubHN for April Fool&apos;s submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ErrantX</author><text>More. See the reason I despise April Fools nowadays isn&apos;t because of the day itself... the problem is that the &quot;pranks&quot; aren&apos;t pranks any more, it is just people doing silly or stupid things for the lulz.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;That&lt;/i&gt; was a proper &quot;prank&quot;, if a simple one.</text></comment>
<story><title>Can we skip the lame April Fool&apos;s submissions?</title><text>Every year the Internet goes through this lame ritual of making up stuff and trying to pretend it&apos;s real. Very little of it is believable. Even less of it, funny. I can through the submissions today and I see at least half, just by the title, are lame April Fool&apos;s submissions.&lt;p&gt;Can we just skip it?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>What do you think, 2.5/10? I didn&apos;t put a lot of effort into it.</text></item><item><author>citricsquid</author><text>you sly dog!</text></item><item><author>jedsmith</author><text>There&apos;s a SubHN for April Fool&apos;s submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alexyim</author><text>7/10. Got me for a split second as I was moving my cursor to highlight the text</text></comment>