I think they need to decide whether they want to be a personal blog for Arrington's uninformed self-injection or real journalism. Right now, I think they're pretending to the latter while operating as the former.
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#12I don't read Techcrunch unless someone points me to a story that sounds like it might be interesting which is rare. However, people seem to read, and their traffic hasn't suffered, so I doubt that the site is going to change anything soon. For that matter, who cares what Techcruch is writing about. By moaning about it here, we're giving it airtime that could be used for something more useful. Ignore it, and perhaps others will too over time (or they'll change their focus).
Yes, the site has influence, but to think it's the only way to get noticed is only adding fuel to the fire.
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#13I don't read Techcrunch unless someone points me to a story that sounds like it might be interesting which is rare. However, people seem to read, and their traffic hasn't suffered, so I doubt that the site is going to change anything soon. For that matter, who cares what Techcruch is writing about. By moaning about it here, we're giving it airtime that could be used for something more useful. Ignore it, and perhaps o…
> By moaning about it here, we're giving it airtime that could be used for something more useful. Ignore it
yes, sorry. I'm slightly horrified that my rant is #1 on HN. In a nice way though.
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#14TechCrunch needs a comment system like the one used here @ hackernews.
It will then be more fun.
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#16They are in the news business and need to make entertaining stories. I don't see the big deal - all news outlets try to make as much drama as possible, and Arrington seems to be good with words. It's the way of the news.
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#17Its problem is the commenting system. Needs something like Digg.
Disqus is the answer to all commenting systems! :)
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#18This is the top story on Hacker News? Embarrassing.
Should I add downvotes on stories, for users over a certain karma threshold?
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#19Alternatives to TechCrunch, choose one, be happy:
CenterNetworks Mashable! VentureBeat Read/Write Web
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#20This is the top story on Hacker News? Embarrassing. Should I add downvotes on stories, for users over a certain karma threshold?
I didn't vote it up myself, but I'm not surprised that on a slow news day, something about TC would get voted up by a lot of people interested in tech (especially web) startup news.
A lot of people ask for downvotes when they're particularly annoyed by a particular story, but they're always told to just go vote up something good.
A more moderate change might be to allow people to undo their upvotes if they decide the story wasn't worth saving after all.
You have more data and experience than anybody else. Try out what you think will be best and undo it if it doesn't work.