I am part of "we" and I disagree. Clearly someone was confused at the post but given the upvotes, it was understood. The response, clarifying that it was a joke

I am part of "we" and I disagree. Clearly someone was confused at the post but given the upvotes, it was understood. The response, clarifying that it was a joke on my part, was poorly received. Perhaps the correct characterization is that the realization by some users that they didn't get the joke were subsequently more inclined to downvote due to not getting it, or that the meta post acknowledging it was a joke was off comment (but still relevant in the context of the aforementioned subthread) than those that got it, upvoted it and moved on. If you haven't seen other jokes on HN then consider the possibility that maybe you are overly aggressive in filtering out the human element from this collections of comments, posts & links and are markedly worse off for doing so.