Actually, the general low quality of articles on Techcrunch is a good reason not to ban them here. Usually they have one good/important article every day or so, and having them linked to from here saves me the trouble of sorting through the junk over there.
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#92If it cuts down on the useless spam in my reader do it. Honestly HN needs to categorize things 80% of the news here I could care less about (i.e. twitter, startup 9,000,001, I had a company that failed, bla bla)
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
axod, I'm starting to think you've got a vendetta against TechCrunch. Did they give your startup a bad review?
samson, As we all know, if your startup plan relies on getting a review on TC, you're going to fail. Some people are living in a bubble, so they think a review on TC matters. My gripe with TC is that lately, most of their articles have been based on "anonymous sources" or gossip. Having said that, I don't really mind too much either way if they're banned or not. I'd much rather they started reporting unbiased facts a…
Real estate is important and for every link to techcrunch, and for that matter, cnn, nytimes, washingtonpost, and all the other mainstream sources there is less room for somethign outside the mainstream and finding that stuff outside the mainstream is why I have liked HN so much in the past.
The lack of that kind of watered-down-for-the-masses content is why I found HN so appealing. I would much rather read hacked together transcripts from Dijkstra's brain.
It's not so much that I have something against those publications, but rather that it is easy to get that content somewhere else. People forward it or it's at digg or something.
Which niche is HN meant to fill?
It seems like as the population of a community approaches infinity, the mainstreamness of the content approaches 100%.
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#94Andr, what site do you think is a better source of news about startups?
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC PG doesn't want to implement that because the quality of the front-page would presumably diminish if people could selectively ignore sources of low quality for themselves.
How do you explain not being about to down-vote submissions?
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#96We 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.
What would stop ten or twenty shills from an "interested party" to upvote all their stories to get to the front page?
One you detect that pattern you should ban them to avoid further spreading of bad behavior.
And I am not talking about TC only...
Re: Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?
#97Yes && No
Yes because I /personally/ don't care for it.
No because not all of /us/ do.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you explain not being about to down-vote submissions?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=623583
Why do you think selective filtering would ruin the front page? It's the equivalent of "don't click on Techcrunch articles", but it makes it much easier and removes the visual nag.
(For that matter, has there ever been a social news site whose primary method of filtering links was letting each individual user ignore things? It might be an interesting way to maintain a community.)
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because it's banned, I just had this great nostalgic moment. "Remember when ValleyWag used to clog news.yc with crap?" Glad those days are behind us.
You haven't provided nay supporting arguments for what makes VW different from TC or CH.
Valleywag is specifically about insulting individuals involved with companies. TechCrunch focuses on breaking news, even when a good deal of the time it's crap, and CodingHorror might be uneducated but Jeff Atwood is still writing things that are relevant to this site. We don't need articles about Julia Allison and Tina Fey.
I think Valleywag is actually better-written than those other two. It just happens to be completely off-topic.
Re: Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?
#100We 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.