Huh. I was pretty sure this was one question everyone could understand was off-topic, but I guess I was wrong.
Interestingly, this HN submission is illustrating the original reason Jeff Atwood locked the post in 2009 - nobody can be bothered to even read the first page before posting their own joke.
Of the 20+ pages already there, no one has yet posted the funny one from xkcd or Dilbert. No other site on the Internet can put these two sources together like Stack Overflow can.
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Huh. I was pretty sure this was one question everyone could understand was off-topic, but I guess I was wrong.
Interestingly, this HN submission is illustrating the original reason Jeff Atwood locked the post in 2009 - nobody can be bothered to even read the first page before posting their own joke.
Of the 20+ pages already there, no one has yet posted the funny one from xkcd or Dilbert. No other site on the Internet can put these two sources together like Stack Overflow can.
There's another whole thread devoted to cartoons: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/84556/whats-your-favorite...
Yes, it's locked too, and it too was deleted for a year or so before the current crop of moderators undeleted and locked it.