It is just the (unfortunate) tendency for humor or snark-only comments to devolve into a thread of equivalent snark or hand-slapping that people worry about. So the response is to slap content-thin replies down immediately before they blossum into something worse... Even if they were clever.
Thanks. I've learnt the lesson now. I can understand why that's a good rule.
Am I the only one who thinks these titles are too often unoriginal, suggestive and often conclusive? And sometimes the conclusions in the title are not even supported in the article.
You aren't the only one, but that's a harder problem to solve as I there are a limited number of mods and people understandably want their posts read. The public high humor bar and one or two post commentary seem to work well for keeping HN only half way over the shark. I upvoted you to make up for it.
I don't think that's the right conclusion. The correct conclusion is, I think: What you say should add something non-trivial to the conversation. If what you have to say is funny, that's a bonus.