I don't view your statement as unacceptable speech (whether it be a joke or not). Instead I view it as noise and a pointless distraction. HN discourages "+1" t

I don't view your statement as unacceptable speech (whether it be a joke or not). Instead I view it as noise and a pointless distraction. HN discourages "+1" type comments, anything that doesn't add to the conversation. I suspect your quote was trying to be funny. If so, it really falls into that same category of adding nothing at which point you have to ask: who exactly is losing the spirit of HN was/is all about?