> but the weekend case struck close to home for noticeable fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit this community. Yet the whole of HN was fu

> but the weekend case struck close to home for noticeable fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit this community. Yet the whole of HN was full of nothing but Aaron Swartz articles for days. I stopped visiting HN for a bit. It was frustrating to me as I have no connection to Aaron Swartz (beyond using RSS and Reddit), although I realised it affected some people very seriously and needed to use HN as an outlet. Having said that personally I felt that HN was the wrong place for an overrun of Aaron Swartz tributes and articles. My inner cynic sadly feels that quite a few of the posts over the weekend (especially some from some of his blog posts) were attempts at little more than karma scoring.