My guess is that "Yeah, me too" posts rarely add anything to the conversation - sorry, I'm being blunt here, but that's the way HN rolls. If you find a post humorous, just upvote and move on. You'll get your chance to crack a joke in due time.

The contrast is with ten-comment-long Redditesque variants-on-a-theme threads, which I personally enjoy - on Reddit. Here, I'd rather cut to the chase with insightful commentary.

From HN Guidelines:

> Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

Resist quoting from HN Guidelines. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

If you were right, then I would.

Resistance is useless. Now, do you want to hear my latest poem?

To me it's quite obviously sarcasm based on a counterfactual and I don't see how one could interpret it otherwise.