Have you ever been to a meal occasion after a funeral? It is extremely difficult in human nature to be fully 100% saturated in negative the whole time.
No problem to request no humor during tragedies as long as you know that since it is against human nature and unsustainable, it won’t happen.
I wasn’t able to be funny last night but maybe some people felt more detached. I was hurt and devastated, both from having lived in France and Francophone Europe for 4 years, and especially because both my sons have been to concerts of that band, and I kept thinking of those families, it just hit too close.
I agree with you about funerals, but it is my understanding that what LR was saying was that breaking news threads are about information. Joking posts just get in the way of acquiring information, particularly when so many people are posting.