i completely disagree. i'm glad this person wrote that - it lets me know that this board isn't completely 100% dead and there's people here who think posts about 'facebooks integrity advertising chief' have no business being on a board about Hacker News. maybe everyone is afraid to speak up against this kind of useless B.S. for fear of being accused of not being 'constructive' enough or something.

I disagree. I don't think it added any value. It's self evident why something ends up on the front page right? I don't go around shitting on every topic I'm not interested in, it's a waste of our finite time.