Since I can't "down vote" is it possible to not see stories from certain domain like techcrunch? YN doesn't get updated at the same rate as other social media sites like reddit and more than half the time there are 2-3 articles from TC. This is seriously annoying since there is not way I can prevent this annoyance from showing up on my YN.
NSFW: Don’t bullshit a reformed bullshitter
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#22Since I can't "down vote" is it possible to not see stories from certain domain like techcrunch? YN doesn't get updated at the same rate as other social media sites like reddit and more than half the time there are 2-3 articles from TC. This is seriously annoying since there is not way I can prevent this annoyance from showing up on my YN.
May be this might help : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
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#23This is what bothers me about this: He points out that journalists have a name for one type of sourcing (presumably to indicate that he knows something about journalism). He then mocks them for being irrelevant.
After this, he goes on about his own struggle with sourcing in today's age. He invents his own (probably not unique) rule for anonymous sourcing and announces it and says he's going to spread the word. The "Techcrunch House Rule" for anonymous sourcing I guess.
Aren't these the issues that journalists deal with all the time? That's why they made those rules; the same reason he just made one. His smugness drives me crazy. It's like watching a wannabe physicist mock Newton and then declare that he's discovered this special kind of thing that pulls objects downward.
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#24It's easy to pose all macho and righteous on this issue. But there's a reason journalists protect sources; on balance it helps them do their job, even with the reality some sources abuse the confidence to dissemble.
And what happens when Carr mistakenly believes a source lied, burns them, but then discovers the source was telling the truth? The betrayal of confidence and repercussions for the source may be irreversible.
Arrignton made a similar pledge that TC would promise to respect embargoes, but then break them. How many embargoes has TC broken since?
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#25I'm just curious: what's the NSFW label for? I don't see any material that seems to warrant it.
It's the name of his column: http://www.techcrunch.com/author/paul/
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#26Honestly, I don't get this. Can someone please help me get out of my ignorance?. NSFW for me is "not save for work", it doesn't make sense to me. About the story, I don't understand why this is the second "hot" history. Is it because it is from techcrunch or something, and HNews needs to post every single history there?
"NSFW" is the name of his column: http://www.techcrunch.com/author/paul/
Apparently it's supposed to be edgy or something.
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#27Since I can't "down vote" is it possible to not see stories from certain domain like techcrunch? YN doesn't get updated at the same rate as other social media sites like reddit and more than half the time there are 2-3 articles from TC. This is seriously annoying since there is not way I can prevent this annoyance from showing up on my YN.
May be this might help : http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
Thanks. I don't use GS, but I might have to start using it - will give it a shot.
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#28So he's been writing for how long? And just now he's learning the pitfalls of off-the-record covered in Journalism 101?