can someone explain to me what is interesting about this?
If his name wasn't part of this story, would it still be?
Stories are considered "interesting" or "uninteresting" based on how people vote on it, that's pretty much all there is to it. In my entire life, I have yet to see any good come from people who are not interested in something complaining to people who are interested in something that they shouldn't be interested in whatever it is that they've expressed an interest in. Which should not be interpreted as me being interested in this story, which I most definitely am not. But if other people are, good for them.
Those that have that power have a great deal more control of the front page than those of us that don't.
We're relegated to trying to exercise our power through snarky comments and distracting meta conversations about the voting system.
The other way to get rid of content you don't want or want to bury, vote up content you do want.
The final way is to hide it. The article will disappear for a day or two for you.