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you're stll kind of new, so let me give you some friendly advice, since i've been here slightly longer: hacker news hates jokes and jokes are a great way to get

• brudgers 14y ago
  What HN tends to discount are useless and derivative comments of the sort which may turn into "insider" memes. Humorous comments may get upvoted, particularly when they extend the content cleverly and are well written. However, you are correct in so far as the threshold tends to be higher than is common. In my experience, it is best to view downvotes as editorial suggestions rather than personalizing them as "hate." A downvote may mean a lot of things, but in general it is often best to consider them as an indication of how well one's point has been communicated. I recommend using them as feedback regarding the quality of one's writing. Likewise on the subject of communication, one might read your post as a bit uncivil in regard to the way it addresses the author of the parent comment. Curtailing incivility is a current point of emphasis within the HN community. My question is, how could your point have been better communicated in a way which promotes meaningful dialog, and how could the "edit" feature be used to implement an improved version?