TechCrunch is a bully • Hacker News Board

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by samstave » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:27 AM UTC

uid wrote: post #46

nameuserc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately this is true. I'm not sure all that many people know where the founder came from, i.e., the type of stuff he was doing before TechCrunch, and the company he worked for - a company responsible for a very large portion of some of the purest douchbaggery to be found anywhere on the web. The lowest of the low. They do some very dirty work. I'd even guess there are "innocent" people working at TC who do not…

what the hell.. this thread is certainly being derailed very quickly. discredit the facts in the story, not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever

"...not the guy who hired the guy who used to run the site or whatever"

That is why we are referring to the DNA of the company...

Meaning that its founder's character sets the tone for the future of the company...

This is fact, as founders hire people whom they believe will carry on the traits they themselves want to instill in the company...

Arrington, while successful, is a farking douchebag.

The whole of techcrunch has followed this from the sensationalism, to the lack of proof/editing, to the very fanboi-ism and game mechanics they have attempted to apply to the stories they write.

I rarely frequent TC - when I do, I find typos and grammar mistakes pretty much in every story I see.

I think the site is a joke, and the egos abound.

Do they get good scoops, sure they do - but they are CONSTANTLY offered excellent opportunity only to fumble and look like fools -- the sad part of that is that too few people actually notice and even fewer hold them to account!

TC is successful - but they really should not be.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by corin_ » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:28 AM UTC

mindcrime wrote: post #45

And she has the top media company in the tech industry trying to take her down. TechCrunch isn't anything close to a "top media company." TC is a shitty blog run by a bunch of amateurs who should be lucky enough to be referred to as "wannabe journalists." TC exists to whore for page impressions and ad clicks, nothing more. The best thing to do is pretend they don't exist... quit reading TC, quit sending them "news",…

I guess it depends whether you define "top media company" as top in quality of top in readership/influence/etc. I've on idea about stats but it wouldn't surprise me if TC was at the very top for its niche on the latter.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:34 AM UTC

deniszgonjanin wrote: post #7

America has always been a land where you could fail, then pick yourself up. You could move west in search of a new beginning and a new identity. You could go bankrupt, then start over, and eventually fail your way to success and a better life. There is no longer a place to hide or run away to. There is no way to re-invent yourself and start over. The foolish crimes of our youths are now a permanent part of who we are…

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Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:35 AM UTC

deniszgonjanin wrote: post #7

America has always been a land where you could fail, then pick yourself up. You could move west in search of a new beginning and a new identity. You could go bankrupt, then start over, and eventually fail your way to success and a better life. There is no longer a place to hide or run away to. There is no way to re-invent yourself and start over. The foolish crimes of our youths are now a permanent part of who we are…

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Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by lukejduncan » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:41 AM UTC

"So shame on TechCrunch for publishing something that belongs on TMZ."

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TechCrunch essentially is TMZ.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by cpeterso » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:48 AM UTC

I'm surprised there isn't a "Photoshop yourself with Shirley Hornstein" meme yet.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by FixThisPOS » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 5:48 AM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #37

I'd like your leave to go a bit meta here, hope you don't mind. What I find interesting about this exchange (the original TC article and Lanewood's response) is the message "don't do this because it hurts." Yes, it does. But my experience is that pain is a signal you listen to, it's one of those things that says "stop doing what you are doing." It is a corrective force. Making exaggerated claims about your influence…

"I'd like your leave to go a bit meta here"

Leave not given, since that doesn't mean anything.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by famousactress » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 6:01 AM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #48

famousactress wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, first off I don't give a fuck about the story, or the counter story, or people who photoshop themselves with celebrities, or people who care about whether people really know celebrities, or techcrunch. That said, I wanted to contrast the HN reaction to this story with the HN reaction to the kid who slept at AOL. I figure in both cases we're talking about someone who did something deceptive and wrong in the suppos…

That is a completely fair point. What is the difference? I see it as 'who is being scammed' and what is the harm done. Now in the kid's case he did use AOL resources which, had he not, they would have been used on AOL employees (thinking mostly food here, the energy/light/water usage is probably flat rate like it is in my facilities). He did not do monetary damage to AOL, nor reputational damage (he didn't represent…

Wildly lucid and I imagine if I'd reflected on the topic for longer this line of thinking may have occurred to me. I really appreciate you spelling out your thought process for both.

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by snowwrestler » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 6:03 AM UTC

deniszgonjanin wrote: post #7

America has always been a land where you could fail, then pick yourself up. You could move west in search of a new beginning and a new identity. You could go bankrupt, then start over, and eventually fail your way to success and a better life. There is no longer a place to hide or run away to. There is no way to re-invent yourself and start over. The foolish crimes of our youths are now a permanent part of who we are…

Picking yourself up in America has never been about hiding your past. Think no one remembers the past of G Gordon Liddy? Ollie North? Jack Abramoff? Robert Downie Jr.?

Bankruptcy laws don't hide your bankruptcy. In fact it becomes public information indefinitely. They just let you reset financially.

This woman has every opportunity in the world to pick herself up and make a new career, or even keep going in the career she's in now. All she has to do is reset herself to reality. If she's been lying about her connections, she needs to stop lying and work her way up through the industry the right way--with work and dedication. Someone will give her a chance but she needs to learn from this shaming.

edit to fix bad phrasing

Re: TechCrunch is a bully

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Post by sgift » Thu, Aug 30, 2012, 6:09 AM UTC

chacham15 wrote: post #59

nameuserc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately this is true. I'm not sure all that many people know where the founder came from, i.e., the type of stuff he was doing before TechCrunch, and the company he worked for - a company responsible for a very large portion of some of the purest douchbaggery to be found anywhere on the web. The lowest of the low. They do some very dirty work. I'd even guess there are "innocent" people working at TC who do not…

Im sorry, but this is ridiculously unfair. Dont judge a company by what just one person in it has done. Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

> Everyone has made mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Well, Techcrunch didn't use this principle before writing their little piece yesterday, did they?

You get what you put in.