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Nerds To Valleywag: Stay Off Our Site!

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Re: Nerds To Valleywag: Stay Off Our Site!

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Post by allenbrunson »

"Sooner or later Valleywag will write something particularly informative or amusing and Hacker News readers will miss out." ... holy cow, that's a great reason to wade through dozens of sensationalistic fluff pieces!

looks like hacker news is well on its way to being as misunderstood by the tech press as apple has always been.

Re: Nerds To Valleywag: Stay Off Our Site!

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Post by veritas »

"Sooner or later Valleywag will write something particularly informative or amusing and Hacker News readers will miss out."

Because in the off chance that Valleywag writes this informative and insightful article, we won't have access to it through any other source. It's not like we have access to a medium that enables efficient propagation of information.

Re: Nerds To Valleywag: Stay Off Our Site!

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Post by jeroen »

allenbrunson wrote: post #3

"Sooner or later Valleywag will write something particularly informative or amusing and Hacker News readers will miss out." ... holy cow, that's a great reason to wade through dozens of sensationalistic fluff pieces! looks like hacker news is well on its way to being as misunderstood by the tech press as apple has always been.

If they do write something interesting, then someone here can write a blogpost about it and link that.

"Plus, we like the guys! In fact, we'll be hanging out with Wag-In-Chief Owen Thomas and his underling Nicholas Carlson in a few hours at Nowhere Bar near Union Square."

Somehow I feel that that might be the primary motivation for this article.

Re: Nerds To Valleywag: Stay Off Our Site!

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Post by icky »

> We vote no. Banning a specific outlet's stories from a news aggregator is a losing idea; it only lowers the value of the index. Sooner or later Valleywag will write something particularly informative or amusing and Hacker News readers will miss out.

The article misses the point entirely: news.yc's value is not in being an index, or aggregator of news items. Its value comes from the intelligent discussion of said items, and in having a smart community of similarly-interested people to bounce ideas off of.

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