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Long time ago. Probably 2008. I am pretty sure most people are submitting techcrunch articles just for karma points. That and they come standard with aggressive linkbaiting headlines.
I just thought this was shorter.
Long time ago. Probably 2008. I am pretty sure most people are submitting techcrunch articles just for karma points. That and they come standard with aggressive linkbaiting headlines.
I don't really need Karma points for anything. Maybe I should just have written a 2 sentence post with the submission title and put a link to the TC article. I just thought this was shorter.
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I don't really need Karma points for anything. Maybe I should just have written a 2 sentence post with the submission title and put a link to the TC article. I just thought this was shorter.
I can vouch that I know Oo personally, and he didn't submit this for easy karma. Not sure why he did submit it, though...
Maybe the frustration knowing that I will never get my 5 mins back and hoping that the guys at TC get the feedback. :)
Heh. They can't all be winners can they? Based on this article, I'd say they jumped it, hired it, and now its writing articles for them.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the hell I just read. So let me get this straight: the author of the article has an argument with his daughter about Lady Gaga, which leads to his daughter getting her iPad and hijacking his AirPlay, which leads to a "kids these days" type of commentary, which leads to him talking about how he missed his deadline. Which startup is he "obsessively profiling?" Is this a meta…
Ha! That's an awesome way of putting it. I nominate you for comment of the year.
No, they haven't jumped the shark. Happy Days started to suck long before Fonzie jumped the shark tank. That episode was just the final straw. TechCrunch isn't that bad - as long as you pick and choose which articles to read. If you're wasting time reading every TechCrunch article linked to by HN, then you have bigger concerns than whether the articles are consistently high quality. Maybe HN article submitters could…
Agreed. If you stick to Arrington, Rao, Butcher, and a couple of others, you get some good content. There are just a few 'bad apples' there who drag it down.
The only articles I like for the most part are by Arrington and Jason Kincaid. Arrington goes off on rants sometimes or writes ridiculous flamebait, but when he puts his mind to it he writes the best articles on the site by far. These gems just don't show up often enough to make the site good though.