Comedy is tricky, fleeting and there is great variance in tolerance to it among HN voters.

This place is much more for pedantic gotchas and devs showing really cool stuff off.

The only jokes tolerated are the humans who post really stupid stuff.

Actual jokes like from the ad campaign from Chick-Fil-A aren't really funny, either.

My own attitude is that I can appreciate the humor, but I want top comments to be informative, not comedy. I'll downvote jokes near the top to help bring informative posts up, but I don't downvote when they aren't at the top, or when there are no competing comments.

Oh man, it is so difficult to please you.

Thank you for helping to keep HN focused on intellect over wisdom

Can you elaborate on that?

> user: RcouF1uZ4gsC -- created: March 26, 2013 -- karma: 16601

> user: verisimi -- created: August 29, 2021 -- karma: 519

I would posit the flagging had something to do with this, plus other data intrinsic to the words used.

The above comment isn't just silly, but a reference to an ancient advertising campaign. Anyone over a certain age -old like me- will recognize that campaign.

Large karma pools allow for more 'trust' on HN, and more leeway and access to special features.

Only the Mods/Devs could answer your question succinctly, however.

Did you delete it? I see a questionably flagged dead comment at the bottom but it’s not from you and it’s not humorous

It's the same reason comments criticizing journalists or mega media corporation is flagged now. Most social media are propaganda platforms.

The only logical explanation I can think of is that either these other comments managed to fly under the radar, or more people found them genuinely funny.

I don't know - I avoid attempts at humour because more often than not people don't find it funny and it doesn't add to the discussion.

I mean, this is my best result this year(7 points):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36577360