I apologize if I came off as rude and a bit dense, but it seems you've been on HN long enough to realize, it's a far cry from Reddit (despite frequent mentions to the contrary) and humor is verboten unless it's written in MATLAB.

If I wanted to see idiotic pun threads/snarky irrelevant comments I would go to reddit. I don't want to be rude but I want HN to be a site for serious discussion on mostly technical topics.