Poll: Ban Codinghorror? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by clintjhill » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:09 PM UTC

And this is how communities start to disintegrate.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by jrockway » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:15 PM UTC

Don't ban it, but I wish people would stop posting Codinghorror articles. The writing quality is low, and I don't learn anything from the articles. It's just a big waste of time.

Edit: modding this up to 11? Give me a break. There are much better comments than this.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by joshkim » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:20 PM UTC

There needs to be a third choice:

No, don't ban it; But I don't like seeing Codinghorror stories on News.YC.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by icey » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:21 PM UTC

mechanical_fish wrote: post #9

icey wrote: post #5

It surely can't be that difficult to just not click the link , can it?

http://xkcd.com/386/

It's sad that I get sent that enough that I know which comic it is just by the URL :(

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by abrown28 » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:21 PM UTC

I'm one of the unwanted new people driven here by Coding Horror and you are making me feel very welcome.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by derefr » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:21 PM UTC

rglullis wrote: post #8

bdfh42 wrote: post #7

Jeff Atwood is only doing his job - promoting his blog and start-up. Doing a better job than most of us at that. Sure he gets things wrong but so what? If we were afraid of getting things wrong we would never publish anything - and would probably also never learn anything new.

It's not the "getting things wrong" that bothers me. I don't mind at all seeing flawed, but honest attempts of writing. What bothers me a lot is the whole attitude of shoot-first-ask-later. It causes excessive noise. He knows it, but he doesn't care , because it gets people talking about him. He tries to control the conversation by saturating the channel, and the one filter that we have (the community itself) will go…

Just because we post some Codinghorror articles doesn't mean we have to post them all, you realize. He's not "saturating the channel," we are, and we can stop if we want, without having to ban anything.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by callahad » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:21 PM UTC

As a community, we will become what we become, with or without Jeff Atwood. This poll doesn't help things.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by wynand » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:21 PM UTC

I don't particularly like Codinghorror, but I'm not in favour of having it banned.

I would however like a mechanism to filter out stories from certain domains.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by dfranke » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:22 PM UTC

coglethorpe wrote: post #3

"No, don't ban it" and "I like seeing Codinghorror stories on News.YC." don't have to go together. If you're going to ban one source that irritates some people, I'm sure a list can be prepared of other sources to ban. Here's a sample of authors/blogs to ban: 1. Guy Kawasaki 2. Seth Godin 3. TechCrunch 4. 37Signals 5. Joel the Fog Creek Guy They all can be seen as shameless self-marketing disguised as blogs or worthle…

Nitpick: Valleywag is already banned.

Re: Poll: Ban Codinghorror?

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Post by fogus » Tue, Mar 10, 2009, 7:22 PM UTC

Yes, his posts are not always well thought-out. Yes, he tries to be incendiary. But the good part about exposing these posts on HN is that this is exactly the group to dissect his drivel. You may not think the same way he does, but many people do, and one day you may have to deal with them so you better be prepared to counter their lunacy.