I can think of three distinct reasons why humor and jest is so prevelent on the forum; but there may be more:
1) Someone has posted something judgemental, harsh or unloving and rather than reply sharply and get drawn into the same critical spirit, they respond with humor.
2) A discussion begins to become oppressively heavy and someone decides to lighten things up.
3) someone has nothing to say and wants to fill space.
1) Someone has posted something judgemental, harsh or unloving and rather than reply sharply and get drawn into the same critical spirit, they respond with humor.
2) A discussion begins to become oppressively heavy and someone decides to lighten things up.
3) someone has nothing to say and wants to fill space.
...or maybe the quiet ones, have the most to say?
It's just that they don't, because they know it will only fall on deaf eyeballs?
Being always happy, as opposed to constantly being confrontation, isn't a bad thing.