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are you really advocating a ban?
by sundeep 18y ago
are 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.
- sundeep 18y agofair enough ..
- Raphael 18y agoMaybe if there were a downward vote, people who dislike Techcrunch submissions could send them further down the page.