stopping non-hackers from coming here fosters frustration, and decidedly deteriorates a community of hackers over a period of time, a "flush" seems to only be a reaction from some under appreciated ego's
education is better than irritation, if HN is incapable of providing productive news and information, by flooding it's face with only Erlang, then HN and all of you, need to go away, and find something more useful to do with your time.