When writing my lasttwo April 1st posts on the EA forum, I knew that my strength in creating humor was mostly in my particular style: dry humor in the format of a serious post, which intersperses accurate information with absurdity and self-referential jokes. Other people have had success with announcements, but if I wrote an announcement it would very likely be worse.
Caveats: I think this tip might be less good (result in fewer Good Hearts per unit of effort) than other tips. This is because it optimizes the quality of the post, and you generally yield fewer Good Hearts this way than by optimizing Good Hearts directly.
When writing humor, make self-referential jokes
When writing my last two April 1st posts on the EA forum, I knew that my strength in creating humor was mostly in my particular style: dry humor in the format of a serious post, which intersperses accurate information with absurdity and self-referential jokes. Other people have had success with announcements, but if I wrote an announcement it would very likely be worse.
Caveats: I think this tip might be less good (result in fewer Good Hearts per unit of effort) than other tips. This is because it optimizes the quality of the post, and you generally yield fewer Good Hearts this way than by optimizing Good Hearts directly.