I personally don't want to see the crowd from Techcrunch here on the site. Blocking the traffic won't really change things... but damn this might suck.
Let's block all referrals from TC
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Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#2That's silly. The way to maintain a community is to control who sticks around, not who randomly stumbles across you in the first place.
Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#3there's several ways to skin a cat my friend.
Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#4no need to take such measures. just disallow folks from submitting articles and voting under a certain karma level. they need to earn the right to participate based on making worthwhile comments.
We can automatically remove any user with a karma level too low (-20?). So new users have a choice: make good comments and participate in the discussion, or start get banned relatively quickly for making digg/reddit level comments.
Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#5Worrying like this is a sign of lameness that you should fear. I'm all for community. But the whining I've seen on sites like reddit and digg is a huge turnoff.
Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#6No, that's silly.
If you don't want HN to suck then do two things: vote up good stories on the New page, vote down stupid comments.
Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#7Wow! Rough attitude there. Less coffee, more Cheerios :) Hopefully new users who find Hacker News from Tech Crunch will be good contributors, but eventually there will (hopefully) be more users, and I'm not sure the source properly indicates the quality of the user referred.
Re: Let's block all referrals from TC
#8Wow! Rough attitude there. Less coffee, more Cheerios :) Hopefully new users who find Hacker News from Tech Crunch will be good contributors, but eventually there will (hopefully) be more users, and I'm not sure the source properly indicates the quality of the user referred.
i really hope so