Sam, come on. No crap comments on HN, please.

(I edited this to make it less harsh.)

It's not an especially crap comment, it's just a joke you didn't get. Jokes don't do well here admittedly.

Ok, fair point. I thought it might help to make a public comment in this case because repeated private requests don't seem to have worked.

The jokes thing is a tricky one for HN. I love comedy and I love wit. I'm sure most of us do. But when you're optimizing for signal/noise ratio, as HN tries to, there are tradeoffs. On the whole, I think the community habit of downvoting most (not all) jokes is reasonable for what HN is trying to be.

It's not a mean comment and it made me laugh, maybe it's my childish sense of humour

Or just an appreciation of the Princess Bride...