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This site should be penalized up the wazoo. Can we get them banned on HN? NSA-level penalized? Insta-dead?

• minimaxir 13y ago
  Since Rap Genius is a YC company, that is unlikely. This also isn't the first time a YC company has had ethical issues called out on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
  • seiji 13y ago
    Does anybody else see the folly in letting a corporation with their own agenda run a real time news site?
    • minimaxir 13y ago
      In fairness, the articles submitted from the domain rapgenius.com are appropriate for HN. (e.g. the Heroku incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5215884 ) They aren't using HN to submit content spam. (fwiw, there was another YC startup in a similar niche doing just that earlier this year. That startup appears to be dead/zombie now.)
    • buttsex 13y ago
      Eh, as long as HN doesn't censor bad press on its startups (I don't know, maybe they do?) I'm fine with it.
    • jbigelow76 13y ago
      Does anyone else see the folly in patronizing a news site if you think the news reported is untrustworthy?
    • jamesaguilar 13y ago
      What do you mean, "Letting a corporation run...?" You don't "let" someone run a site they created.
    • Kluny 13y ago
      "Letting"? You didn't have to come here.
  • bb0wn 13y ago
    I'm pretty sure that that is a sarcastic comment...