Although the parent comment didn't really seem to be a literal comment about voting. That's what the ":)" was intended to indicate. It was just a general, friendly pro-Emacs comment. Downvoting everything that isn't super serious makes for pretty boring reading too. The first comment on this post, something along the lines of "My pinky hurts just reading this" was actually pretty funny. It was removed because it was immediately heavily downvoted.

Seriously, aren't your day jobs stressful enough? Do you have to be that uptight? I don't remember HN being like this a year or two ago.