It's strange, the ZSCL post from yesterday got flagged/removed too, after it had 100+ upvotes!
Link, please.
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#22Are we really debating this with 23 points? It wasn't exposing anything at all. You can go to techcrunch.com and find the advertisers. It amazes me how fast all of you criticize TechCrunch as being a piece of shit, yet it is the top domain here which everyone constantly upvotes: http://top.searchyc.com/domains . Feel free to criticize what they did with the twitter docs, but people are justifying it with silly commen…
I don't think very many people manually upvote Techcrunch stories, certainly not off the new page. They get on the front page because every single post they make is submitted by multiple users, and double-submission counts as an upvote.
People with rss-scraping auto-submission scripts (free karma if you're first) heap fuel on the fire.
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#23Because it was a linkbait response to a tempest in a teapot-- a waste of space second only a post asking why it was deleted.
Oy. There are days when HN seems determined to jump the shark, and the only reason it doesn't is that the editors heave it back.