I dunno -- most who know me would say I have a sense of humor, but that doesn't mean I think the word "fart" is funny in and of itself, or expect anyone around me to either, beyond my 3-year-old.
I'm also occasionally aware of how others build their concept of me. If someone had known me for years and I recommended this service, I can't imagine it would make any difference.
If we'd had only incidental interactions, this could easily remain the first thing that pops into their head when they think of me in the future. I worked once in the same company as a talented designer who told a hilarious but quite scatalogical story at lunch one day. That's still the main thing that pops into my head when I think of him. I don't know that it'd stop me from recommending or hiring him, but it remains a significant part of how he's defined in my head.
I'm not sure if this makes me seem like a wet blanket, or overparanoid -- my real point is that I have quite a few different filters, and for most parts of my professional life "fart" doesn't make it past at all.
I suppose if the target audience of this application is "st0p", then you'd be correct. The rest of us don't necessarily get the luxury of choosing what sort of sense of humor our employers have.
Hmmmm. Dunno. If you have baisc experience and a proper grasp of programming and live in the westeren world, you might not know beforehand if an employer had humor, but you can still choose your employer.
If by "basic experience of programming", you mean 10+ years of experience or a Stanford/MIT/Berkeley degree, and by "western world" you mean Silicon Valley (and a few other very select areas, all of them within the US), yeah, I agree.
Outside that, the number of decent opportunities you'll get as a developer will be too low for you to be picky.
"Why not?" Because, for example, if you decide you really want to work with frickin' lasers, that may be more important to you than working at a place where clowns are appreciated in all their glory.
That's like suggesting someone is illiterate because they no longer care to read books written for small children. Of course, if that's all you're capable of reading, those people must seem pretty stupid.
Dont' confuse sense of humor with being keen on laughing at brown jokes. Humor for a grown-up person, in an abstract situation (like with professional colleagues) is very difficult to attain.
You can perfectly be unpolite trying to be humorous with this kind of joke.
The easy joke is not necessarily polite and is usually unintelligent: so it is a way of telling the other part "look, laugh at this silly thing" when actually one ought to be able to say "look, laugh at this intelligent joke".
