General chat is for amusing stuff that has a point. Something you can reply to, add input too, etc.
However, if you're posting a joke, the best replies you're going to get are "lol, that's awesome" or something. This doesn't generate discussion of any kind.
However, if someone had an amusing anecdote and then asked for other people's amusing stories, that would generate a discussion, or "chat" and would therefore be more than a waste of bandwidth.
Okay, so one joke would fall off the first page of F&D quite quickly, but a "jokes thread" wouldn't.
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