This is about how lame PR april fools pranks got banned on HN in 2014.<p><pre><code> The issue isn't clever jokes or pranks - like most people on HN, I know the history too of course it's all great.
The problem is that companies started doing it by rote as a way to promote themselves with teh hackerz. That's lame and boring. It had gotten lame and boring years before I made that post in 2014. How much lamer and boringer is it now? exercise for the reader.</code></pre>