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Breaking a story should be rewarded. Ok, I'll admit it. I hate sites like TechCrunch or The Verge that simply take reports from other news sites, reword them, a
by ccnafr 8y ago
Breaking a story should be rewarded. Ok, I'll admit it. I hate sites like TechCrunch or The Verge that simply take reports from other news sites, reword them, and then pass them as their own. It disturbs me to learn that HN favors TechCrunch like this.
- mhomde 8y agoBut, but, that's just how Blogs work man :) They clearly attribute it to them (though I find it a tad lame they don't have a specific attribution area), and you could argue that being featured on a popular blog helps people discover them, and with google ranks as well. Curation does add some value and it's not like The Verge for instance doesn't create its own content. I find sites that just repackage reddit stuff to be much much worse.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago> ...you could argue that being featured on a popular blog helps people discover them, and with google ranks as well. I ran a semi-serious gaming blog for years and we often had our stories repackaged and linked from Kotaku, at the time the biggest gaming blog in the world. The extra traffic and SEO boost was negligible at best.