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I think if Music Lovers some how find relevance to the way Clojure or Erlang works and have been motivated/influenced by it they definitely would discuss it. Music is a pretty popular topic among programmers. And many programmers/hackers are instrumentalists. So it makes sense for them to discuss. Besides if somebody doesn't like it he can always chose to no up vote the story and not discuss. But if somebody else wan…
This is the sort of slippery slope which deteriorated the culture of Reddit. Here's an example of the front page from 5 years ago: http://mashable.com/2012/05/10/reddit-2007/ If the users don't maintain a sense of courtesy and stay on topic, the noise to signal ratio will become intolerable.
Re: Ravi Shankar dies at 92
#51Content isn't killing Reddit, users are. This post is clearly relevant to people based on the upvotes, yet here we are in a thread where someone decided it was more appropriate to condemn the post rather than acknowledge that it exists and people are happy that it does.