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I don't understand why we can't blacklist domains on HN.

by psychometry 8y ago

briandear 8y ago
Why would we blacklist one of the most important American newspapers?
- Mizza 8y ago
  All of the articles are paywalled.
  - briandear 8y ago
    Do you work for free?
    - ekianjo 8y ago
      false dichotomy.
- 13of40 8y ago
  I should be able to blacklist it from showing up when I look at hacker news, either by the grace of the ycombinator site or via a custom client. Does this exist?
  - kbenson 8y ago
    There are browser extensions which support that, as well as other features ("cleaner" UI, thread collapsing before it was in core, inline reply, etc). Explore a few, you might find something you like.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    No, because web discussion boards are still behind where NNTP news readers were 20 years ago. EDIT: Or, 30 years, for that matter.
DEFCON28 8y ago
It's one of the highest quality news sources in the United States and many people pay for it.
cornholio 8y ago
I've developed somewhat of a brain ad-on to bypass the paywall: click on the address bar and select all, cut, type "archive.is", paste in the search box, press enter. The WSJ would be much better served by requiring a free, easy login with an email or social account, then throttle down the number of free articles one can read. Turning down people interested in your product that you could offer a sample at zero marginal cost to you seems such a poor business decision.
Buge 8y ago
HN does blacklist domains. Here's the blacklisted domain list from 2009[1]. Here's a blog post examining penalties applied to posts, some of the penalties are based on the domain[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 [2] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
dang 8y ago
The question has been answered countless times. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928452. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928127 and marked it off-topic.

I don't understand why we can't blacklist domains on HN.

briandear 8y ago

Why would we blacklist one of the most important American newspapers?

Mizza 8y ago
All of the articles are paywalled.
- briandear 8y ago
  Do you work for free?
  - ekianjo 8y ago
    false dichotomy.
13of40 8y ago
I should be able to blacklist it from showing up when I look at hacker news, either by the grace of the ycombinator site or via a custom client. Does this exist?
- kbenson 8y ago
  There are browser extensions which support that, as well as other features ("cleaner" UI, thread collapsing before it was in core, inline reply, etc). Explore a few, you might find something you like.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  No, because web discussion boards are still behind where NNTP news readers were 20 years ago. EDIT: Or, 30 years, for that matter.

DEFCON28 8y ago

It's one of the highest quality news sources in the United States and many people pay for it.

cornholio 8y ago

I've developed somewhat of a brain ad-on to bypass the paywall: click on the address bar and select all, cut, type "archive.is", paste in the search box, press enter. The WSJ would be much better served by requiring a free, easy login with an email or social account, then throttle down the number of free articles one can read. Turning down people interested in your product that you could offer a sample at zero marginal cost to you seems such a poor business decision.

Buge 8y ago

HN does blacklist domains. Here's the blacklisted domain list from 2009[1]. Here's a blog post examining penalties applied to posts, some of the penalties are based on the domain[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 [2] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

dang 8y ago

The question has been answered countless times. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928452. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16928127 and marked it off-topic.