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"No, don't ban it" and "I like seeing Codinghorror stories on News.YC." don't have to go together. If you're going to ban one source that irritates some people
by coglethorpe 18y ago
"No, don't ban it" and "I like seeing Codinghorror stories on News.YC." don't have to go together.
If you're going to ban one source that irritates some people, I'm sure a list can be prepared of other sources to ban. Here's a sample of authors/blogs to ban:
1. Guy Kawasaki
2. Seth Godin
3. TechCrunch
4. 37Signals
5. Joel the Fog Creek Guy
They all can be seen as shameless self-marketing disguised as blogs or worthless regurgitations of tech news and gossip.
EDIT: to note one has been banned already.
- dfranke 18y agoNitpick: Valleywag is already banned.
- coglethorpe 18y agoEdited to note that. Also, the spamtrap on your site rules.
- ankhmoop 18y agoMost you've listed are shameless self-marketing blogs that push remarkably poor self-acclaimed technical insights onto the programming populace, and propagating their work does learning developers a gross disservice. Unfortunately, "Ban it, it causes brain rot" wasn't a poll option.