I don't soeak for anyone else, but I've always thought that an ocassional witty comment was fine, it's just lazy joking that's reviled. So for example, pun threads amd lowbrow memes are discouraged.
The guidelines for submissions speak to piquing intellectual curiousity. If there was such a guideline for cracking a joke, it might be "anythng that uses humour to sneak an insight into the conversation."
The post above made me laugh and certainly makes a point about the morale at Zynga. Well done!
p.s. There is another kind of wit that is explicitly discouraged, the "witty reply." That is a special case where a comment tries to make fun of another comment. As a general rule, this lowers the tone of the discussion by emphasizing rhetoric over ideas. This isn't the case here, making fun of Pincus is not the same thing as making fun of a comment or making fun of the OP.
The guidelines for submissions speak to piquing intellectual curiousity. If there was such a guideline for cracking a joke, it might be "anythng that uses humour to sneak an insight into the conversation."
The post above made me laugh and certainly makes a point about the morale at Zynga. Well done!
p.s. There is another kind of wit that is explicitly discouraged, the "witty reply." That is a special case where a comment tries to make fun of another comment. As a general rule, this lowers the tone of the discussion by emphasizing rhetoric over ideas. This isn't the case here, making fun of Pincus is not the same thing as making fun of a comment or making fun of the OP.