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Classic survivor bias. Jokes are fine when they are funny but they aren’t worth the price of encouraging unfunny posts. Ultimately they don’t contribute.


Exactly. Actually funny jokes from amateurs tend to have risen out of an order of magnitude more failed attempts. You can't encourage the funny one without inviting a ton of bad ones.




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