IF you send me a friend request on Facebook and I don't accept your request, it doesn't mean I don't like you. I currently have 4,818 "friends" on the system. 5,000 is the limit and while you and I know I should have 182 slots open, Facebook doesn't know that and usually thinks I'm maxxed out. This may have something to do with the fact that I have something like 1200 requests for Facebook Friendship. So nothing personal. And…
IF someone in the comic book field dies and I don't write about them, it does not mean I disliked them or thought they were insignificant or anything of the sort. It probably means I didn't know them and/or their work — which may well have been my loss — and that I think their passing is being sufficiently covered elsewhere by people more qualified to write about them than I am.