Why no sense of humor?
unalone: Humor is anathema to good discussion on sites that use voting models and karma.It would be a lot different if discussions were flat, or at least where comments weren't judged on a per-comment basis. The problem is that the most humor a voting site allows, the more the top answers get diluted. I was a hardcore Reddit user when it started going downhill; the shift happened after one or two puns/jokes were breakthrough huge successes. After that, everybody tried to get the same success.I downvote comments that are humorous but don't add to the discussion. I also usually don't upvote useful comments that are humorous. This community is valuable because when somebody posts they're rarely being sarcastic/ironic. You get a lot of people saying things they mean at face value. Humor's downside is that it adds uncertainty to conversations.