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Worse yet, it made me laugh.
I love pun threads, and iterative permutations, and trite references to internet memes. I just don't like them here.
I think that 100% of HN members are aware of TC, and have already chosen whether to put it in their feed reader or not.
Now what?
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Hacker News + Primary Sources > TechCrunch.
TC's stories often are the primary sources, especially for news about new startups.
Similarly, one of Arrington's recommendations at the 2008 YC startup school was: if you want good coverage, leak us info so "we remember that down the road".
When there's a choice between two sources for the same story, I'd prefer the one where editorial judgment isn't driven by the constant filling and draining of a favor bank... even if that means using a source that's second-to-report.
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TC's stories often are the primary sources, especially for news about new startups.
But isn't much of that because of favor-trading and TC's occasionally-stated threat: "give us an exclusive or we'll cover you less"? Similarly, one of Arrington's recommendations at the 2008 YC startup school was: if you want good coverage, leak us info so "we remember that down the road". When there's a choice between two sources for the same story, I'd prefer the one where editorial judgment isn't driven by the con…
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But isn't much of that because of favor-trading and TC's occasionally-stated threat: "give us an exclusive or we'll cover you less"? Similarly, one of Arrington's recommendations at the 2008 YC startup school was: if you want good coverage, leak us info so "we remember that down the road". When there's a choice between two sources for the same story, I'd prefer the one where editorial judgment isn't driven by the con…
Note well: "primary source" doesn't mean "first to report". It means "closest to the event".
(Otherwise, the situations where TC is truly a 'primary source', in the sense meant by a traditional journalist or historian, are not 'often' but rare.)
We shouldn't be biased. Techcrunch links are sometimes crap, sometimes good. So completely banning wouldn't do any good. Let's solve it the HN way. Just don't up vote what you don't like. OK, you say, "I don't, but they get votes somehow". That, my friend, is _probably_ because community is polluted.
If so it's been polluted from the beginning, because TC articles have always gotten votes here. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81