Comment by yoha

Hey, I see you are new here. Don't take the downvotes personally, it's just that Hacker News users prefer to keep conversations focused. Thus, the following types of comment tend to get downvoted somewhat quickly:

* jokes

* complaints about downvotes

* downvote predictions (thus self-fulfilling prophecies)

* single word / single expression

* simply (dis)agreeing (there are up/downvote buttons for that)

* condescendence, insults, etc.

This is very different from Reddit where numerous threads end up littered with jokes and puns. On the other hand the following types of comments tend to get upvoted:

* insightful and well structured (as in: cut in several paragraphes)

* food for thought

* counter-point (politely worded, obviously)

* sourced

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Your first comment was probably mostly perceived as a joke:

* “ROFL” just expresses your personal reaction to previous information, and the common use of this acronym usually signals a low quality comment

* “Bootstrap has become a sign of a lazy developer”: this reads as both condescending (“lazy developer”) and unsupported; a more constructed argument with the same idea would have been fine

Your second comment contains the word "downvote", which is often enough to get downvotes.

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You might want to have a look at:

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

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