I find it funny that a nearly identical comment (different wording, but ssame joke and no follow-up) in this thread hasn't been receiving the same negative attention.

Yeah, get your disgusting low-brow humor gone, foul beast! We want none of your entry level antics polluting our white collar supremacist abode!

scott_s said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

The issue isn't humor, it's lame humor, which is the kudzu of the internet.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

I think it's just more about content density. I think most feel the same way about too much meta-hn conversation. Are we on topic?

Downvotes are just saying that maybe that comment wasn't welcome in this thread not that you aren't in any thread.

It's a much cleaner downvote than those against controversial, but thought out opinions.