Low value comments get downvotes - and most “funny” comments are about a zero on the funny scale (regardless that office space is fantastic). The point of the

Low value comments get downvotes - and most “funny” comments are about a zero on the funny scale (regardless that office space is fantastic). The point of the guidelines is to help reduce low value comments and on that note - mentioning voting is against the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for the same reason “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”