Deadly heart attacks are more common on a Monday

Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!

(I know I’ll get downvoted for using humor on HN, the “this isn’t Reddit no smiling” brigade will be here in a moment to express their scorn at any sign of pleasure)

It's not humor in general that's disliked, it's seeing the same few dozen tired references that it's seen as normal to repeat ad nauseum on more social media type sites like reddit.

That said, Office Space is my favorite movie so don't take it personally, mmkay? Yeahh, that'd be great.

Yeah I actually have never used Reddit so don’t know. I’m more a Usenet guy.

Low value comments get downvotes - and most “funny” comments are about a zero on the funny scale (regardless that office space is fantastic).

The point of the guidelines is to help reduce low value comments and on that note - mentioning voting is against the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html for the same reason “Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”

The issue isn't humor, it's that people overestimate how funny their comments are. The best explanation of this was from scott_s years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289.