Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#1

Post by yankees1 » Wed, May 28, 2008, 10:42 PM UTC

I'm guessing 90% of the active visitors to Hacker News get the TC RSS feed and already have plenty of visibility to everything posted there. If you want to comment on the TechCrunch post, doesn't it make sense to do it there? I'd rather see activity here around more obscure news and posts.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#2

Post by aaroneous » Wed, May 28, 2008, 10:53 PM UTC

This issue has been raised before, to which some said they don't follow TC and appreciate those stories showing up on HN.

Personally, I agree with you. I think it's pretty lame that almost all of the daily TC stories get posted here, regardless of what the article talks about.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#3

Post by tonystubblebine » Wed, May 28, 2008, 10:58 PM UTC

I read the TC comments to gauge public opinion and the comments here to get understanding, perspective, and ideas. Whenever I'm on TC, I feel like I'm at a horse race surrounded by people who are passionately debating which horse is going to win. But no one there seems to know how I could become one of the horses. That's why people should keep posting TC articles here.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#4

Post by jakewolf » Wed, May 28, 2008, 10:59 PM UTC

Because there's always a greater fool. Not that I don't enjoy reading TC, but come on, we don't need duplication just to keep a couple of non-TC readers happy.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#5

Post by reazalun » Wed, May 28, 2008, 10:59 PM UTC

I totally agree. The reason why I unsubscribed to TC is because the news there will be echoed in so many places. Digg, Reddit, TechMeme and Hacker News.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

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Post by rms » Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:03 PM UTC

Techcrunch posts NEWS. About software startups. They are the preeminent news source and incredibly relevant here, even when they are talking more general business (like Yahoo/Microsoft) Get used to it and please stop complaining, at this point it is just annoying because Techcrunch is not going to be banned. There are greasemonkey scripts to filter out domains from this site if you never want to see Techcrunch again.

http://internetducttape.com/2008/05/23/filtering-reddit-and-...

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#7

Post by mark-t » Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:08 PM UTC

Maybe instead of trying to change everybody else's behavior, you could just solve the problem and move on. If you subscribe to news.yc's rss feed, write a filter. If you visit the front page, write a greasemonkey script. This is not a hard problem.

I also subscribe to steve yegge's rss feed, raganwald's, jeff atwood's, joel spolsky's, paul graham's, xkcd's, TED's, and so on. It would be ludicrous to try to get people to stop posting links from all the sites I subscribe to.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#8

Post by aneesh » Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:23 PM UTC

Reading a TechCrunch article on HN is different than reading it on from TechCrunch; the discussion generated on Hacker News is often very interesting and high-quality, and I think is the reason most of us visit the site in the first place.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#9

Post by PI » Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:24 PM UTC

I make it a point NOT to read TechCrunch.

Re: Ask YC: Why do people submit TechCrunch stories?

#10

Post by lpgauth » Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:35 PM UTC

aneesh wrote: post #8

Reading a TechCrunch article on HN is different than reading it on from TechCrunch; the discussion generated on Hacker News is often very interesting and high-quality, and I think is the reason most of us visit the site in the first place.

True, and Chris (from TC comments) is not here.