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The TechCrunch formula: take any interesting rumor ("Apple is building a search engine"). Throw technical platitudes around it ("you need people who know what t
by ovi256 18y ago
The TechCrunch formula: take any interesting rumor ("Apple is building a search engine"). Throw technical platitudes around it ("you need people who know what they're doing"). Do not commit - neither assert ("why invest all that capital into search? The answer is they’re not.") nor deny too strongly ("There are pieces of this we are still putting together"). Be sure to stick ads on the page.
Finally? Profit of course.
- unalone 18y agoYep! No question mark there. I'm still surprised HN hasn't banned TechCrunch stories. When they do have a good story, usually somebody else has the story as well. And TechCrunch attracts a lot of spam.
- centuren 18y agoI've imposed my own ban on TechCrunch, with the BlockSite extension for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145). I actually installed it specifically to prevent getting lured to TechCrunch articles from sites like HN where I'm just looking at headlines. It's the only site I have listed, and the links show up as visited and unclickable, saving me wasting precious minutes everyday.
- sundeep 18y agoare you really advocating a ban?
- unalone 18y agoHacker News has banned other URLs before, from what I know, largely based around the theme of "stories here are irrelevant/infactual/not hacker news." Valleywag was. TinyURL is. I think TechCrunch is similarly useless as a news source.
- sundeep 18y agoi dont really understand the point of a blanket ban on articles from a website. assuming the system isn't getting "played",aren't the articles that members deem interesting supposed rise to the top? So why a ban ? (if this discussion has already been had elsewhere,please point me to it)
- allenbrunson 18y agopg and the editors hold the reins pretty tight around here. they have much more influence than the average reader. if a site tends to run nothing but articles that run counter to what's expected around here, it gets banned. that sounds critical, but it's not. i agree completely with his decision. if this site were run as a democracy, it would eventually devolve into uselessness, as has every other site before it.
- unalone 18y agoYeah. HN is the first "social news" site I've been on with a strong editorial staff and with restrictions on users below certain levels of Karma. And I'd suspect that that's one of the things that keeps it at the level it's at. The problem with democracy is that it is incredibly open to the possibility of quality and focus loss. Hacker News fixes those problems. And I'd argue that losing TechCrunch might be a good move.
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- kirubakaran 18y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181539 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181539
- walterk 18y agoI avoid TechCrunch as much as possible, but my impression is that most of the crap is coming from Arrington. That TC story about Loopt that had "Told you" in the headline? Yeah.