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Re:Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles? by wumi on Monday May 05, 2008 @03:31PM (#181747)
considering that TC employees regularly check news.yc it's plausible to assume they automatically upvote all TC stories.
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Re:Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles? by create_account on Monday May 05, 2008 @06:27PM (#181939)
Yeah, which is why you should be able to downmod.
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Re:Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles? by humanlever on Monday May 05, 2008 @06:38PM (#181949)
If you add in the ability to downmod submissions this place will rapidly turn into Digg. i.e. An environment where a handful of people control the majority of the information.

As far as excluding TC content goes, while I could live without it, think about the number of AWESOME discussions that would have killed in the past, then ask yourself if that's what you want for the future.

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Re:Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles? by xirium on Monday May 05, 2008 @10:48PM (#182109)
A handful of people already control the majority of the information on this forum.

ValleyWag posted a flurry of articles which were counter to YCombinator interests and now ValleyWag articles are automatically posted with the dead attribute. The same scenario could happen with TechCrunch.

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