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joelg236  ·  4164 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 21 jokes only nerds will understand.

So this is just a really bad webpage with comments in a reddit thread? Why not just link the thread?





wufoo  ·  4162 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Honestly the reddit thread was better, because if there was a joke you didn't understand, it was probably explained in the comment below.

thenewgreen  ·  4164 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As I mentioned in a comment here, others have emailed this to me and the versions I saw all cited reddit pretty overtly and provided links. I think it's an interesting phenomenon that has been occurring around tweets for some time now and it appears reddit is now a part of it, even beyond the Daily Dot. But I think the reason to not just link to the reddit post is that these publications have (conceivably) edited out all the crappy jokes.

joelg236  ·  4164 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reddit is pretty different though. People naturally (through voting) choose the best jokes. There's no value in just stealing content for page views.

thenewgreen  ·  4164 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't get me wrong, I think the whole "repackaging social media as journalism" thing is pretty weak. Are the jokes they chose the top ones from the post or did they do some digging? Either way wouldn't surprise me.

humanodon  ·  4164 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd love to see whether or not Hubski can influence the popular/public consciousness. Hopefully not for tiger pictures though.

thenewgreen  ·  4164 days ago  ·  link  ·  
user-inactivated  ·  4163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Never forget.