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If you mean these similarly brief recent remarks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33208546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33208557

then I must contend that these were flagged by the humourless mediocrity police, a tribe I discarded any respect for at least three decades ago.

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I don't recall if I had those comments in mind, but yes, they're examples of low-quality comment.

The problem with stuff like that is that everyone overestimates how funny their jokes are. Mostly they're just lame. The gold standard HN explanation about this was by scott_s many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

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