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express.co.uk is a very low quality source of information we should aspire to seek better sources for HN.
by kingkongjaffa 7y ago
express.co.uk is a very low quality source of information we should aspire to seek better sources for HN.
- dang 7y agoOn HN, we go by article quality, not site quality. Most major media sites are penalized on HN, but even the bad ones also produce the occasionally interesting article. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%20%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- theogravity 7y agoMaybe site quality should be a factor - I tried to watch the video and waited roughly a minute before it failed to load. I thought it was an adblocker thing, so disabled it. On page reload, it was adpocalypse, two pop-under windows, one video playing on the side, and the video still struggling to load with my macbook fans kicking in. The entire site was essentially a giant ad that I never got to see the video and re-enabled adblock. I'm unsure how sites like this are allowed to exist, or how people even tolerate it.
- ngcc_hk 7y agoInitially I thought what is yoga mat to do with ufo. Then remember it is express web site.
- dang 7y agoUnfortunately sometimes a good article comes along in a frustrating package. If the article is good enough, it's still better for HN to discuss it. I don't know if that's the case with this one.
- SpikeDad 7y agoIf it's a high quality article then it's highly reasonable to assume it's also reported on high quality sites. I'd rather see low quality sites banned and miss the very infrequent quality article rather than give them a false stamp of legitimacy by having articles appear here.
- dang 7y agoYou'd be surprised (I was), but that's not always the case.