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Brilliant. Reading the comments I cannot help but think of Poe's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law). Some poeple can't tell this is satire despite or maybe because of how ridiculous and over the top it is.



It's also really very difficult to write satire well.


Hearing about Poe's law for the first time but in my corner of the woods, we blame it on the lack of a sarcasm font


A "sarcasm font"... People working on lightweight markup languages should pick up the hint if they're looking for new additions. For instance, in Textile, enclosing a string in between "(:" and ":)" could display the text into sarcasm fonts (notice that I am being dead serious in here - those happy faces around do change things in a paragraph).


Aren't a lot of the comments satire?


On some days, most of HN seems like satire to me.




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