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For the love of everything that is good, please either block techcrunch (very unlikely to happen) or put a hard cap on how many stories can be submitted within
by pavs 17y ago
For the love of everything that is good, please either block techcrunch (very unlikely to happen) or put a hard cap on how many stories can be submitted within 24 hours from one domain (I suggest 2).
Sometimes reading HN feels like reading TC rss feed. If I want to read every single story from TC I would have subscribed to their RSS feed.
- swombat 17y agoTC is extremely relevant to start-ups. Blocking it would be pretty ... silly.
- kogir 17y agoSadly, while still relevant, Techcrunch is slowly becoming less intellectually satisfying. There's been more drama than needed as of late in my opinion.
- pavs 17y agoI am not saying all of TC is irrelevant. We have our share of irrelevant stuff from other sites too. But on average we get 3-4 stories from TC posted here on HN, stuff like twitter going down (every freaking time, how often does it happen?), facebook going down for 5 minutes, rackspace going down (in itself is relevant news, but from TC the news is the internet went down because TC is hosted on rackspace). If this much crap was posted from any other website, they would have been blocked without any debate whatsoever. There is a reason people subscribe to rss feed, why would I come to HN to see one blog hogging the whole site? Which is why I suggest either a hard cap on number of subs per domain per day or give users the option to block out certain domain so that they don't see it in their HN. I don't think it is an unreasonable or very difficult request to implement.