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

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Post by yankees1 » Thu, May 29, 2008, 1:46 AM UTC

Thanks everyone, I really wasn't criticizing anyone, just trying to get different view points. Lots of great feedback.

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

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Post by yankees1 » Thu, May 29, 2008, 1:51 AM UTC

mark-t wrote: post #7

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…

Really wasn't trying to change anyone's behavior, just asking a question hence the "Ask YC" prefix.

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

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Post by rms » Thu, May 29, 2008, 4:07 AM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #18

rms wrote: post #6

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…

> They are the preeminent news source Except when Mashable writes about something first and TechCrunch refuses to follow.

Does anyone here read Mashable?

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

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Post by RyanGWU82 » Thu, May 29, 2008, 5:50 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #15

In his book (The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership) Steven Sample (the president of my alma mater, USC) talks about how he doesn't read newspapers, but rather gets his news from his peers. He figures they're a pretty good filter, and if anything important or interesting happens he'll hear about it through them. I take a similar approach with Hacker News. You guys are my filter. 90% of TechCrunch articles are uninteres…

I'm the same way -- I don't browse TechCrunch myself, but I appreciate links to relevant and interesting TC articles.

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

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Post by Raphael » Thu, May 29, 2008, 6:49 AM UTC

reazalun wrote: post #5

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.

Why not get it directly from the source?

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

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Post by s3graham » Thu, May 29, 2008, 7:15 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #15

In his book (The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership) Steven Sample (the president of my alma mater, USC) talks about how he doesn't read newspapers, but rather gets his news from his peers. He figures they're a pretty good filter, and if anything important or interesting happens he'll hear about it through them. I take a similar approach with Hacker News. You guys are my filter. 90% of TechCrunch articles are uninteres…

Ditto. When I hit the main TC page, most of it seems like banal self-involved crap. But, if it gets past you guys first, it might be worth reading.

I'm certainly in the 10%. I bet >10% here don't even open/visit an RSS reader every day.

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

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Post by flipbrad » Thu, May 29, 2008, 3:29 PM UTC

PI wrote: post #9

I make it a point NOT to read TechCrunch.

as do I. the important stuff hits techmeme (which I pull the RSS feed to) and/or HN.

I do however read TC:UK, @mbites does a pretty good job there without pollution from mike arrington's insufferable soapboxing/linkbaiting

I'd love to be able to just pull Eric Schonfeld's TC material and leave the rest to rot