I’m not upset about it not landing, logically more jokes fall flat rather than land. Instead I found the severely disproportionately adverse reaction to be very distasteful.

Don’t particularly agree with a comment? Don’t upvote it. Just move on. And that is what non-toxic communities will do. Downvotes are essentially saying “this does not belong at all” because they are taking the time to act rather than moving on.

And again, I received some very toxic replies, including from OP which were immediately upvoted, though some of those were deleted.

These things together signal a toxic overall attitude, and particularly so when met with even more toxicity when calling it out, like your comment.

the more you push yourself out of the conversation.

I really don’t care if I am making things worse by retorting with reasoning and logic. Y’all already burned that bridge. Would a Klingon care that a Ferengi disapproves of defending his honor? Why would I care that toxic people disapprove of me pointing out their toxicity?

Hopefully this community pushes out this toxic behavior, which can really only happen by calling it out and using downvotes appropriately.