We're swift to ban accounts that post like this on Hacker News. It's so easy to dismiss all the flags and downvotes as, "people don't like jokes here", but the

We're swift to ban accounts that post like this on Hacker News. It's so easy to dismiss all the flags and downvotes as, "people don't like jokes here", but the reality is that people don't like dumb, inflammatory, vacuous comments of the kind you find swarming around the rest of the internet like flies around your dinner. People are here to discuss intellectually interesting things. Please let us eat our dinner.