[newbieuser]

hackernews is one such place. they can post such nonsense on the homepage. and now they flagged my comment for being joking.

[dang]

Users flagged your comment. They were correct to do so, because it's not the sort of discussion this site is supposed to be for.

Joking isn't the problem; the problem is lazy internet snark/trope/flamebait style comments. Users here are generally quick to flag those because we all know from experience what sort of low-quality threads they lead to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html