I agree with you that it should be fine except that you are joking about it while we're talking about critiques of HN itself. He was talking about how posts ge

I agree with you that it should be fine except that you are joking about it while we're talking about critiques of HN itself. He was talking about how posts get voted into oblivion for saying good things about Apple (which could be a serious problem with regard to addressing intellectual conversation) and you downplay the importance of that by making a joke.