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"Most" is not "all." The fact that the biggest basketball player in a generation died is arguably a "new phenomenon." There's plenty of stories that are upvot
by tempsy 7y ago
"Most" is not "all."
The fact that the biggest basketball player in a generation died is arguably a "new phenomenon."
There's plenty of stories that are upvoted that are covered by the news. It's not really just about learning that he died so much as having a thoughtful conversation around him and his legacy from this community's perspective.
- buserror 7y agoSorry but being from Europe, and not interested in TV sports, I didn't even know who he was. At all. I understand why they were flagged for that reason. Sometimes I see <xxx> has died and it's clearly technology related, and I will click the link, and discover that this person was great even if I never knew their names, and I feel enriched. I certainly wouldn't feel enriched being led to a basketball website.
- quercus 7y agoThere we go, the condescending attitude towards sports.
- gdy 7y agoWhat's wrong with condescending attitude towards sports?
- Turing_Machine 7y agoI don't think there's anything condescending about it. This just isn't a sports site. Observing that fact doesn't suggest or imply that sports are bad in any way. If you posted Bill Manning's obituary to a bunch of NBA fan sites, the users of those sites would no doubt consider those posts off-topic, and they'd be right in doing so. But that wouldn't make them "condescending toward computer science".
- m_ke 7y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=false&query=has%20died&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal... https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died https://hn.algolia.com/?q=has+died Actors and Musicians dying doesn't get flagged.