On: PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights

[mrguyorama]

HN is not a representative sample of normal people and has a long understood inability to recognize satire, or even just particularly strong sarcasm. HN not getting a joke is not evidence of it being a bad joke.

[ryandrake → mrguyorama]

I've never seen an online community fail to grasp sarcasm as badly as HN. I deliberately make one out of 50 posts ultra-sarcastic (to the point where no normal person could possibly believe I'd hold whatever view I wrote), and they always, always go straight to -4.

[cyanydeez → ryandrake]

Autism is a spectrum disorder and I'd say that spectrum is quite biased around here.

[jmhammond → ryandrake]

Coming from a family with several people “on the spectrum,” I want to point out that _some_ people with ASD have trouble with sarcasm.

I would also contend that HN, like my workplace (university math department) skews towards folks with ASD.

Usual caveats of “when you met one person with autism, you met one person with autism…” etc etc.

[dotnet00 → mrguyorama]

Hell, even jokes that have been properly marked get downvoted and flagged here.