Comments on: Hacker News Bans Valleywag

By: Digg Has Gone To Crap…Where Are You Going? - (jeff)isageek.net

Digg Has Gone To Crap…Where Are You Going? - (jeff)isageek.net — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:50:48 +0000

[...] Hacker News [http://news.ycombinator.com/] Hacker News…its new and its fresh, simple and clean design. great news site for us early adoptors and geeks. Also offers a forum feel of sorts where users can ask questions and get input back from other users. I think it has a pretty good feel of community and I have enjoyed reading it. Recently made headlines when they banned Valleywag. [...]

By: Political Mavens » The Selling of the Snark

Political Mavens » The Selling of the Snark — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:20:43 +0000

[...] Gawker matters to New York City (well, Manhattan at any rate) and Valleywag matters to the Valley (even if they hate it), but Wonkette offers no special insight on Hollywood for ugly people. Outside it’s America, [...]

By: The Selling of the Snark at Blog P.I.

The Selling of the Snark at Blog P.I. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:45:20 +0000

By: Paul Boutin

Paul Boutin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:36:56 +0000

Thanks, Michael! We realize at Valleywag that we couldn’t buy press like this from you. Even though Paul Graham wrote a long, nerdy, peer-reviewed essay insisting that we can.

Kisses,
Paul

By: Sally Wu

Sally Wu — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:57:24 +0000

Looks like valleywag may be being served their just desserts by the same start-up folks that they put up for hotness votes.

I wonder who will be next to ban valleywag… check out my latest post on this here…
http://webpoet.wordpress.com/2.....o-amazing/

By: With titles so amazing! « The Web Laureate

With titles so amazing! « The Web Laureate — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:38:08 +0000

[...] titles - inducing of click,Blogging gossip of silicon valley,Content often of naught - so some complain,Drumming excitement - oft [...]

By: ididak

ididak — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:29:51 +0000

Valleywag is very entertaining. Whoever feels the need to ban it needs to chill.

By: Mike Abraham

Mike Abraham — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:17:28 +0000

There’s only room on Arrington’s tech soapbox for Arrington, I guess. Personally, I think a story about the petty vindictiveness of a valley illuminatus is far more newsworthy than the 5,000th story about some pointless social networking aggregator. Go valleywag. Boo techcrunch.

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:02:45 +0000

I read this site daily.

HN: At first try I got no response from site, second try few minutes later, still no site, read all comments, tried again, ah, there it was, a webbed rss. I like that it, has no pics and is easier to read through, no junk, no descriptions, no ads blaring at me, way cool! I think it just may have a good go against their kin if they keep it this clean. Lots to read too (:

It’s HN’s site, they choose the content. So what’s the problem? Sites who post polls over something they have complete control over, just to get the community all up in arms against another. Dissing another site just to get your own sites rocks off (using it to get community attention), is worse then being a linkbait site.

Isn’t any site that puts external links in it’s posted articles, linkbaiters?
Share and share alike. Isn’t that how communities keep going?
I am sure I read this in one of Mike’s articles on the ‘blogging sphere’. LOL

Anywho, great site, HN. Thanks Mike!

Daisy

By: Claus

Claus — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:37:10 +0000

Valleywag aside, banning on a 60/40 split is clearly a bad idea. It’d have to be 95% vs 5% to make sense. How many sites can make a 60% 40% cut *anywhere*

By: Hacker news bans Valleywag | TechWag

Hacker news bans Valleywag | TechWag — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:13:20 +0000

[...] up outside the organization. We still think that this is “on the road to deadpool” information. Techcrunch is reporting that Hacker News a Ycombinator group took an informal poll to see if people where [...]

By: web hosting

web hosting — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:27:06 +0000

For getting underground covering news such website is necessary.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:00:54 +0000

I read news.yc AND Valleywag regularly… For different reasons, though. I scan Valleywag for fun every few days, whereas I go to news.yc and open five or six interesting articles in new tabs and read for half an hour during lunch nearly every day.

So the reason not to allow Valleywag on YC would be more about keeping up the style of the content - technical, some opinion stuff, some business stuff - the kind of things I would really want to sit down and read.

Kudos to them for sticking with it.

By: LOL @ Silly People

LOL @ Silly People — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:36:45 +0000

HackerNews is not really a great community. It’s for a bunch of Paul Graham fan boys. Great. What’s next? A community for coders with no jobs who wish they could mockup the next site that shoes you a view of how efficiently you clip your toenails?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:31:45 +0000

I think the importance of this vote is being substantially over estimated. The reality is that everyone who reads news.y probably reads Valleywag. This ban is roughly as significant as banning xkcd from reddit: it increases the signal to noise ratio, but it doesn’t change anybodies reading habits.

By: WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 4.11.08

WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 4.11.08 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:53:44 +0000

[...] Hacker News Bans Valleywag :: TechCrunch - apparently Hacker News doesn’t feel that ValleyWag is worth the electrons it is written with and has banned it from their aggregator. [...]

By: Mr. Recycle

Mr. Recycle — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:47:07 +0000

Let’s have a vote here whether to ban stories from the vwag cesspool. My vote is yes - it is stupid and pointless at best.

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Bwana.org Radio » bdo radio #106 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:32:36 +0000

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By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ニュース投票サイトHacker Newsが、釣りの多いValleywagを投稿禁止に

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ニュース投票サイトHacker Newsが、釣りの多いValleywagを投稿禁止に — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:16:13 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:51:54 +0000

“Tyranny of the democracy” - uh, that’s supposed to be ‘majority’.

Besides that, the comment makes zero sense. Is he for or against VW? The quote appears in the context who said ‘yes’ to the ban, and then goes about building ‘constitutions’, not ‘institutions’, in private, by great minds, etc.

The comment is just spam, right?

By: sd

sd — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:49:15 +0000

why is this a post?

By: handbag

handbag — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:37:53 +0000

news is good

By: frames

frames — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:36:31 +0000

In fact what would happen if the large blogs and social news sites banned them?

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:57:08 +0000

Kevin, thanks, reworked the post.

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:54:12 +0000

Valleywag died when Owen started going after people on a very personal level. He sold out his talents for page views with written posts i KNOW he wouldn’t have the sack to say in person to his targets (i.e., Salim Ismail).