That's fair, though I wonder if it would be more appropriate to level that at the droves of Aaron Schwartz/Ed Snowden/SFO crash posts that have been filling the front page this year.
Unlike all the other off-topic posts that make the front page, this one could have saved somebody who would otherwise be headed that way now. At least in my book, that justifies its presence here.
Isn't there a SFBlog.org page where this would be more fitting? If not, why doesn't someone start one?