[gist]

I will give the obligatory "why is this article on HN" comment. This is inside baseball and tabloid type infotainment. It certainly doesn't "gratify one's intellectual curiosity" in the way that the guidelines on posting most likely intended.

[Analemma_]

At some point you're going to just have to accept that an upvote/rating system means that the articles on HN are "whatever the HN community wants to see", and no amount of griping or rules lawyering is ever going to change that. HN is a self-selecting population which mostly shares the same interests, and those interests are usually about hacking or IT or entrepreneurship, but not always. The population likes hearing about Tesla, so Tesla articles get front-paged.

[gist]

Well point taken but by that token I am sure the HN community might also want to see jokes as well as porn?

Now you could say "yeah they do like that but don't like seeing it on HN". But I say it's more than that. It's that that type of post would get flagged by the mods and taken down as not fitting in as 'appropriate for HN'.

The HN community actually likes Musk rather than Tesla. There are cool things that are happening by other auto makers but you'd never get upvotes on a post about their executives. At least not anywhere near as frequently.

[Analemma_]

HN upvotes jokes all the time. As for porn, it would be removed by the moderators the first few times, but if a majority the community decided it really wanted it, it would eventually push back on the moderators and the moderation standards would change (well, or YC would just shut it down). At that point it would be up to you whether you wanted to keep coming here, but at the end of the day there's no real way for a vote-based system to perpetually override what the community wants. In practice it works because we're mostly interested in the same things and mostly agree on what isn't appropriate, but you do get edge cases like this.