Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#51

Post by matthewer » Mon, May 05, 2008, 11:43 PM UTC

Why are we banning any sources? You never know where any good news/information is going to come from. It just seems pretty silly to me.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#52

Post by rms » Mon, May 05, 2008, 11:44 PM UTC

xlnt wrote: post #50

xlnt wrote: post #20

Let's ban everything!

ok guys it's not that amazing. stop upvoting this and write a better comment please. edit: they keep upvoting it. i feel like gail wynand.

Banning is hard... let's go shopping?

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#53

Post by TrevorJ » Tue, May 06, 2008, 1:55 AM UTC

I actually like my tech crunch filtered through the great minds that make up the YC community. I also find value in the commentary that gets made here regarding the tech crunch articles that do make it to the front page.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#54

Post by phaedrus » Tue, May 06, 2008, 2:06 AM UTC

Why not just add a small negative weight to all articles that come from an address which isn't unique? For instance if someone discovers XKCD for the first time and submits 20 of them, sure they're great but presumably once you've seen one you could navigate the rest of the site on your own. So add a little automatic downmod to the other 19 submissions because it wasn't a unique site. It would alleviate the techcrunch problem and similar ones without actually banning anything.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#55

Post by techcrunch » Tue, May 06, 2008, 2:13 AM UTC

WTF?

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#56

Post by xirium » Tue, May 06, 2008, 2:48 AM UTC

humanlever wrote: post #47

create_account wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

A handful of people already control the majority of the information on this forum.

ValleyWag posted a flurry of articles which were counter to YCombinator interests and now ValleyWag articles are automatically posted with the dead attribute. The same scenario could happen with TechCrunch.

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#57

Post by donwilson » Tue, May 06, 2008, 3:30 AM UTC

Looks like Arrington is taking the active step and banning Hacker News: http://twitter.com/TechCrunch/statuses/804383391

Good thing I don't frequent this site =)

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#58

Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 06, 2008, 3:32 AM UTC

rms wrote: post #52

xlnt wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok guys it's not that amazing. stop upvoting this and write a better comment please. edit: they keep upvoting it. i feel like gail wynand.

Banning is hard... let's go shopping?

[deleted]

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#59

Post by eugenejen » Tue, May 06, 2008, 3:36 AM UTC

I did not know this one post attracts so many replies. I did not mean it to be a troll to promote my own karma. I was a bit annoyed this morning when I saw a lot of top 30 articles are from Techcrunch on Yahoo! Microsoft deals. I felt I am not here to read Techcrunch but some other rare stuffs that other members feeling interesting. And I am sorry that I can't modify the title of the post after I submitted it. Yes, it should be a question to "Ask HN:" instead of "Ask PG".

Re: Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles?

#60

Post by eugenejen » Tue, May 06, 2008, 3:44 AM UTC

donwilson wrote: post #57

Looks like Arrington is taking the active step and banning Hacker News: http://twitter.com/TechCrunch/statuses/804383391 Good thing I don't frequent this site =)

I can't believe he said that. But I personally had several arguments with Mike Arrington before on his Techcrunch blog comments. (Mostly regarding to Music business model and one of the startup that I worked before) So I am really sorry to PG and other HN members that my submission causing such a big trouble.

I learned from a friend before that most law school students may take an oath in not telling a lie due to their special status in society. I hope Mike is not really taking this one seriously.

My deep apology to PG.