[kleiba2]

I upvoted you, not because I think your joke is particularly great, but I hate that HN has this tendency to downvote comments that are clearly meant as a humorous contribution. And I get it, no-one wants HN to turn into Reddit. I also understand that not every joke lands. But I just think it's unnecessary to downvote, you could simply ignore.

[zamadatix]

"Ignore" is one of those things that sounds like it's a neutral choice but really isn't in practice - it's still just saying "can only ever be positively pressured". IMO people shouldn't go as far as flag though, at the very least, and if it's already at the bottom of the sort there is no sense dumping on it further.

My current comment itself, for instance, also doesn't really add anything to the discussion about the article and I'd have no expectation people leave it from going negative. Maybe the will, maybe they won't, but there is no reason to expect they should in principle of me loving tangents :D.