Personal opinion only ... HN doesn't hate humour, there are cases of humour not merely tolerated, but significantly up-voted. But most of the things people tr

Personal opinion only ... HN doesn't hate humour, there are cases of humour not merely tolerated, but significantly up-voted. But most of the things people try to pass off as humour are simply just not funny to a large enough proportion that they get down-voted and flagged. Most of the "funny comments" are tired, derivative, old, or predictable riffs on things we've seen far too often. Some of us have been around a long time, and when we see things like this we just sigh. It's tedious. Your comment (2) above, for example, just really isn't funny. It's common, unoriginal, uninformative, unhelpful, and just ... not funny.