Clearly, on a community-driven site, the appropriateness of a given story will be determined by the community's sentiment. Nobody said the Kobe story wasn't im

Clearly, on a community-driven site, the appropriateness of a given story will be determined by the community's sentiment. Nobody said the Kobe story wasn't important in the grand scheme of things; just not of particular interest to this community. Whereas it's not hard to see why, on a site called Hacker News, the community would find noteworthy the passing of a pioneer of music produced on computers.