You didn't really make a joke, though. Just mentioning a pop-culture thing in reference to the topic isn't automatically funny. BTW, regarding one of your dead

You didn't really make a joke, though. Just mentioning a pop-culture thing in reference to the topic isn't automatically funny. BTW, regarding one of your dead posts, "You are posting too fast, please slow down" means that your post rate has been silently and permanently limited. HN is very cagey about its post quality/spam control measures, to the point of not actually telling people that they're being disciplined.