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Most of the articles on TC are boring, so I don't subscribe to their RSS feed. The few interesting ones do get posted to Hacker News.
So instead of banning this site or that site, just focus on making sure good articles get the to front page, and flag the TC articles that you feel aren't worthy.
Andr, what site do you think is a better source of news about startups?
Is banning TC necessarily the best solution? Maybe not, but we don't have another solution available that's doing the job. There might also be some throwing the baby out with the bathwater here, which seriously depends on how much TC is a source of news (for HN, specifically) that can't be had anywhere else. I'm not inclined to say that they are a significant source of such news for HN.
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You're equating a physical reality with a virtual one. The whole of the Internet is about filtration. There's no "real" location that grows worse or that requires effort. Besides, a per-site filter won't stop offtopic posts from being flagged, or debates from starting. They'll only allow certain people to ignore certain posts, which those people want to do anyway. I for one wouldn't block TechCrunch, and I'm certain…
A place doesn't have to be physical to be a community.
TechCrunch, Coding Horror, and Rails-Drama are not insightful, often factually incorrect, always incendiary -- linkbait flytraps for junior technologists.
I think we should ban polls about banning TechCrunch.
Lets go the whole hog and ban comments suggesting we ban polls about banning TechCrunch.
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samson, As we all know, if your startup plan relies on getting a review on TC, you're going to fail. Some people are living in a bubble, so they think a review on TC matters. My gripe with TC is that lately, most of their articles have been based on "anonymous sources" or gossip. Having said that, I don't really mind too much either way if they're banned or not. I'd much rather they started reporting unbiased facts a…
Real estate is important and for every link to techcrunch, and for that matter, cnn, nytimes, washingtonpost, and all the other mainstream sources there is less room for somethign outside the mainstream and finding that stuff outside the mainstream is why I have liked HN so much in the past. The lack of that kind of watered-down-for-the-masses content is why I found HN so appealing. I would much rather read hacked to…