As much as I enjoy a good laugh, the predictable "Funny" posts on /. starting waring thin about a decade ago. Folks want to be modded up and it's much easier to rattle off a joke than an "Insightful" or "Informative" comment. It's also much faster to write a one line joke than something more substantial. Since the surest way to get modded up is to be one of the first few posts, the optimum strategy if one wishes to be modded up is to write a joke quickly before even reading TFA... a perverse incentive if ever I saw one.
There is an option on the comment settings page http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm that lets one set modifiers for each quality of comment. I set all "Funny" posts to -6 long ago and now the comments are the best part of /.
