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Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

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Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#41

No. Thats a daft suggestion. This site acts as a filter for the more popular techcrunch articles.

No it doesn't. The techcrunch shills submit and upmod (multiple times) every techcrunch article. Techcrunch's writing style is terrible, and the articles are usually hearsay and completely unresearched.

In the words of a famous kitten: DO NOT WANT.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#42
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This capability is available as a third-party tool: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173581

Great, thanks, but - no. (a) it doesn't exactly do what I want it to (b) it's a third party (officially unsupported) extension (c) GreaseMonkey itself is just too much of a security risk. PS. I did upmod your post though :)

As the 'third party' that wrote this, I have to ask:

(a) What else do you want it to do? I'm bored and willing to add to it.

(b) Is it so mission critical you need official support? I'll gladly sell you a support contract for $100/yr. That will buy you piece of mind that if PG ever changes the html structure of the page, I'll update my GM script accordingly.

(c) Don't install scripts without looking at the source first. I posted mine for all to see.

PS. I'm serious about (a) ... I'll gladly work on it for fun.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#43
post #23

No, don't ban them. I only read TC articles when they show up here. The comments here are also good.

I agree. Hacker News acts as a good filter, and the comments here are generally higher quality than what one sometimes finds on TechCrunch. No point in banning it -- some of their stories are worth reading.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great, thanks, but - no. (a) it doesn't exactly do what I want it to (b) it's a third party (officially unsupported) extension (c) GreaseMonkey itself is just too much of a security risk. PS. I did upmod your post though :)

As the 'third party' that wrote this, I have to ask: (a) What else do you want it to do? I'm bored and willing to add to it. (b) Is it so mission critical you need official support? I'll gladly sell you a support contract for $100/yr. That will buy you piece of mind that if PG ever changes the html structure of the page, I'll update my GM script accordingly. (c) Don't install scripts without looking at the source fir…

> I'm bored and willing to add to it

Kind of unrelated request:

Can you write a GM script that displays a red envelope like in Reddit, if someone replies to any of my comments?

Thanks for the blacklist btw. Very useful. And your cross site GET via image request is interesting. How about multiple requests when the data doesn't fit (with an end-of-requests marker)

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#46
post #31

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I agree, but I'd also like to have the ability to down-vote submissions.

considering that TC employees regularly check news.yc it's plausible to assume they automatically upvote all TC stories.

Yeah, which is why you should be able to downmod.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#47
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

considering that TC employees regularly check news.yc it's plausible to assume they automatically upvote all TC stories.

Yeah, which is why you should be able to downmod.

If you add in the ability to downmod submissions this place will rapidly turn into Digg. i.e. An environment where a handful of people control the majority of the information.

As far as excluding TC content goes, while I could live without it, think about the number of AWESOME discussions that would have killed in the past, then ask yourself if that's what you want for the future.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#49
Yes, please. I appreciate that Arrington has solicited feedback here at news.ycombinator.com, but that in itself doesn't make TechCrunch articles any more useful.

If TechCrunch isn't banned, please mod the system so that links to TechCrunch start out with a negative point value and can be modded up.

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