Yeah, jokes are touchy. People commonly feel that it detracts from interesting conversation. In practice, there are sometimes “allowed” jokes; otherwise timing it later after the post at least garners fewer downvotes.

The best part is I made that comment an hour after the post and was the second overall lol

That’s a good point. Perhaps “after the conversation” is more accurate, though harder to define. Still, it got a chuckle out of me.

I agree with the after the conversation point. And as long as one person chuckled the downvotes are worth it.