We appreciate your concern for the quality of HN, but you've also made it worse by injecting ill-spirited offtopicness into the thread and then perpetuating a spat. Please don't do those things. If you think a story shouldn't be on HN, flag and move on. If you think it's serious, email us at [email protected] to make sure we know about it.

It got to the front page because everyone else clearly disagrees with you.

I'm not sure how you think HN works, but it's not editorialized.