Well, but in fact people don’t incur debt for negative votes, so there is no such clique. I feel like you’re saying “this joke is funny from the perspective of some of the people in the joke and not funny from the perspective of others of them”? And I feel like that might be true, but it doesn’t feel super relevant to whether the joke is funny outside of the joke?
My own reply to TLW would be something like: yes, if that happened it would have that effect, and that would be bad. And also, it’s a pretty funny-to-me idea! Putting those two sentences next to each other suggests there’s some relation between them, like your intent was to say “it’s not funny because if it was true, a clique of users...”. But that’s not how humor works in my brain, at least, and I’d be kinda surprised if it worked that way in yours.
Well, but in fact people don’t incur debt for negative votes, so there is no such clique. I feel like you’re saying “this joke is funny from the perspective of some of the people in the joke and not funny from the perspective of others of them”? And I feel like that might be true, but it doesn’t feel super relevant to whether the joke is funny outside of the joke?
My own reply to TLW would be something like: yes, if that happened it would have that effect, and that would be bad. And also, it’s a pretty funny-to-me idea! Putting those two sentences next to each other suggests there’s some relation between them, like your intent was to say “it’s not funny because if it was true, a clique of users...”. But that’s not how humor works in my brain, at least, and I’d be kinda surprised if it worked that way in yours.
I was more thinking of “people who have a current positive balance can have said balance wiped” than I was actual debt, to be clear.