I took ArisKatsaris’s and yours to be Dumbledore’s and Hermione’s answers to that question, respectively, and was amused.
Humor gets highly upvoted. 18 upvotes doesn’t mean person X thinks your comment is better than a comment with 10 upvotes; it means that on net 18 people thought to upvote it. And lots of people upvote for humor.
I took ArisKatsaris’s and yours to be Dumbledore’s and Hermione’s answers to that question, respectively, and was amused.
Humor gets highly upvoted. 18 upvotes doesn’t mean person X thinks your comment is better than a comment with 10 upvotes; it means that on net 18 people thought to upvote it. And lots of people upvote for humor.