HN style is to go really light on joking and really heavy on information. It can make for some dry reading sometimes, but it's better than Reddit where informa

HN style is to go really light on joking and really heavy on information. It can make for some dry reading sometimes, but it's better than Reddit where informative discussion can get drowned out by jokes, pun threads and snark. So people tend to downvote witty comments unless they find them very funny.