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Ask HN: Consider Banning Infoworld
Also see users 'ccraigIW' and 'snydeq' at http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ccraigIW http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=snydeq.
Notice they both have left no comments and only submit Infoworld. The articles do not generate much discussion. I suggest we will lose nothing banning Infoworld.
- andrewljohnson 18y agoI suggest we lose nothing by not banning them. It's not like the articles ever trickle to the top. That's the beauty of the site. And if someday, they actually submit a good article, then I want to see it. We don't need some heavy-handed witch hunt.
- ErrantX 18y agoprecisely. I upvote, what, maybe 2 or 3 stories a day. And read around 20% of what gets posted here. That isnt bad numbers - the point of the new page is, surely, to filter the crud :) I enjoy doing that!
- noodle 18y agoah yes, the weekly "why don't we ban (insert site here)" thread. i liked what came of last week's: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510309 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510309
- Radix 18y agoCoding Horror is another case. It frequently reaches the front page and generates discussion. IW does not. IW creates noise on New, Andrews does have a point though. Still, it seems there should be a way to mitigate blatent spamming.
- noodle 18y agoi still like the idea i put forth in that thread. make it so that you can only submit X number of stories from a specific domain out of every Y submissions. possibly implement a penalty of some sort if you go over.