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Fully agreed. Which leaves me slightly annoyed each time HN falls for it and pumps TechCrunch to the top of HN. And then I can't refrain from posting about it,
by jwr 16y ago
Fully agreed. Which leaves me slightly annoyed each time HN falls for it and pumps TechCrunch to the top of HN.
And then I can't refrain from posting about it, and then I lose karma because people tell me I can just ignore those headlines and scroll by. Not so, people — yes, I can try to ignore those dramas, but I feel like they take away a little bit of our hacker souls each time they make it to the top.
- j_baker 16y agoI don't think an article going to the top of HN means "We as a community agree with this." Rather, I think it means "We as a community think this is worth reading and/or discussing." And many of TechCrunch's articles, while being of questionable journalistic value (and that's being generous), they sometimes are worth reading and discussing. Like this one. I think that Arrington is acting like a 10 year old, but I also think his post is worth reading and discussing.