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The time period can be manipulated (12 hours, one week, whatever).
This will limit the effect of TC and a few other sites that are very frequent front-pagers without merit IMHO.
Do you feel newbies are being misled? Isit not the case that older hands are sufficiently aware of TC's proclivities? Is it not enough simply to flag the contributions when they are clearly wrong, or down-mod stupid, irrelevant or content-free comments? What would banning them add? Is it impossible that they might yet say something useful?
You can't downvote submissions and TC is great at linkbait headlines, which get upvoted before people read the actual post. That's the problem.
TechCrunch covers all YC startups and PG provides them with thousands of hits via HN. Win win for both $$$, PR for startups and AD money for techCrunch.
Anyone think otherwise? Am I wrong?
Do you feel newbies are being misled? Isit not the case that older hands are sufficiently aware of TC's proclivities? Is it not enough simply to flag the contributions when they are clearly wrong, or down-mod stupid, irrelevant or content-free comments? What would banning them add? Is it impossible that they might yet say something useful?
>> "Is it impossible that they might yet say something useful?" I'm struggling to remember the last useful TC 'article'. Any example? edit: It's quite hard to remember a TC article that didn't mention twitter also ;) Maybe it'd be better to just create 2 front pages - one with everything , and one which removes some of the less useful gossip sites. I agree with the OP - in the last few months TC seems to have descend…
If you don't like TechCrunch, "ban" it for yourself, why do you need a collective approval for this? Sorry, I think HN does not deserve polls like this one.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160704
Collective screening of linkbait/spam articles is useful IMHO.
Do you feel newbies are being misled? Isit not the case that older hands are sufficiently aware of TC's proclivities? Is it not enough simply to flag the contributions when they are clearly wrong, or down-mod stupid, irrelevant or content-free comments? What would banning them add? Is it impossible that they might yet say something useful?
You can't downvote submissions and TC is great at linkbait headlines, which get upvoted before people read the actual post. That's the problem.
There's a parallel here with language choice. Some languages let you shoot yourself in the foot, and others try desperately to protect you. Newbies might need and benefit from the protection, power users often get frustrated at being prevented from doing things.
My principle is: when there's a balance to achieve, don't forbid things.
Techcrunch is a news outlet, it writes about what people want to read. The internet is MUCH bigger than you and I my friend.