> I think the article being on HN makes it HN material Our culture is what we collectively make it, by definition. But I don't want to see the frontpage fille

> I think the article being on HN makes it HN material Our culture is what we collectively make it, by definition. But I don't want to see the frontpage filled with articles about suicide, depression, and celebrity gossip -- that's not what I'm looking to read when I get on HN! And I assumed that others felt as I did, so seeing this upvoted to #2 on the frontpage, I was a bit shocked that my assumptions had been violated. It's fine if we occasionally discuss those things when there's some (potentially nebulous) link to HN's core topics -- a blog by a celebrity making a foray into programming, a discussion of suicide after a well-known startup founder takes his/her own life, or the technological underpinnings of an innovative treatment for depression are definitely linked to topics of broad interest to HN. But I didn't really see any link between this article and any of those things. And that's what I meant by "not HN material."