Oh get off the high horse and allow those of us who are enjoying this soap opera to indulge in some "abhorrently unimportant drama". You have no guilty pleasures?
I don't know about you but I don't post my guilty pleasures on Hacker News
Hacker News is my biggest guilty pleasure. I know what I should be doing ... but I like to feel involved in a community, so I post here. Picking up little bits of information is a bonus.