Ask HN: Why was the Aretha Franklin post removed? Aretha Franklin just died and a story about her reached #1 on HN this morning before being removed (edit: looks like mods revived it and removed this post :D): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17774698 When other celebrities die the post stays up. For example, this story about Anthony Bourdain's death wasn't taken down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264376 Aretha Franklin has had a much broader impact on culture (and I say that as a fan of them both) and if a post reaches #1 it's hard to make the case the story isn't relevant to the community. Why the double standard? |