I disagree with this whole line of thinking. The most important reason to continue submitting xkcd and Coding Horror links to news.yc is the comments. When I s

I disagree with this whole line of thinking. The most important reason to continue submitting xkcd and Coding Horror links to news.yc is the comments. When I see an interesting article come in over RSS, I often click over to news.yc to see what the folks here have to say about it. Smart people read this site. By contrast, I almost never read the comments on Coding Horror itself. I don't know that crowd. Secondly, it's easy to just skim past the Coding Horror and xkcd links. It's not like they take up more than two lines on the news.yc page. It's not like news.yc has a thirty-second load time when you click the "next page" button. Thirdly, these sites have limited traffic. It's not as if xkcd will suddenly explode and generate 50 posts per day, all of which will be submitted to news.yc. Finally, everyone is a newbie once. There are several sites that I've been introduced to by seeing them cited repeatedly on news.yc. I think it's foolish to assume that people "can just read Site X on RSS": how do I know that site X exists and is worthy of a spot in my RSS feeds unless I see it getting recommended over and over by smart people?