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Please, stop this. This is off topic on HN. A prosecutor's legal battles with some drug-infested motel is not what I come here to read about. Stop turning HN in
by eliben 14y ago
Please, stop this. This is off topic on HN. A prosecutor's legal battles with some drug-infested motel is not what I come here to read about. Stop turning HN into a tabloid where people read about loved and hated celebrities.
- thesis 14y agoI'm not sure about you, but I am not forced to read every article on the first page. Skip over them if they don't interest you. Sheesh.
- eliben 14y agoBut there's only a limited amount of articles on the first page... I would much rather see something programming/startup/technology-related up there. The threads about Aaron were important. The follow-up threads about his legal case vs. Ortiz were perhaps less interesting to some, but still very much relevant. _This_ is blatantly off topic. Journalists and bloggers are sensationalist and know how to keep milking a good story when they see it. I do not expect this to overflow to HN.
- shardling 14y ago>_This_ is blatantly off topic. It's worse than that -- it's simply not interesting.
- betterunix 14y agoYou can downvote articles. Or you could ignore them. For some of us, the state of the US legal system, and the actions of a prosecutor with a fetish for attacking hackers, is something worth paying attention to.
- benatkin 14y ago> You can downvote articles. Not on HN, only on reddit. You can flag them.
- betterunix 14y agoTakeaway: don't post things when you are drowsy. (Thanks for the correction)
- frere 14y agoActually, you're wrong.... ok, glad we cleared that up!