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Sad that this was deck was leaked on ValleyWag on Monday, but because Gawker is blacklisted from HN, it didn't make the front page until a crappy re-blog from B
by coloneltcb 14y ago
Sad that this was deck was leaked on ValleyWag on Monday, but because Gawker is blacklisted from HN, it didn't make the front page until a crappy re-blog from BusinessInsider came out.
I think HN is way too aggressive in banning domains (or at least not transparent enough about which are banned and why).
For instance, I submitted this really interesting piece today on Buzzfeed's FWD tech vertical: http://www.buzzfeed.com/joshmiller/fwdus-breaks-its-first-promise-to-be-different http://www.buzzfeed.com/joshmiller/fwdus-breaks-its-first-pr...
Because Buzzfeed is (apparently) banned, the link was autokilled as soon as I hit submit.
I really don't mind that HN is curated--that's part of what makes it so good. But the lack of transparency seems almost like they are saying "Don't worry, just trust us, we know what's best for you."
- sneak 14y agoI didn't know that Gawker was banned from HN. Was a reason given, or can one be reasonably inferred?
- est 14y agoGawker is also banned on many sub-reddits. Maybe this? http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/16/reddit-gawker-ban http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/16/reddit-gawk... http://www.dailydot.com/news/gawker-reddit-banned-adrian-chen-violentacrez/ http://www.dailydot.com/news/gawker-reddit-banned-adrian-che...
- JoachimSchipper 14y agoI'm almost certain that Gawker had already been banned for months if not years at that point.
- coloneltcb 14y agoyea, it's been a while
- hkmurakami 14y agousually due to overdoing promotional link submissions.
- jebeng 14y agoHonestly, it's probably worth it. Even if we are a little late on some news sometimes.