What are the best sites for programming news?

Re:What are the best sites for programming news? by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @07:20AM (#618352)

If you think something is spam or egregiously offtopic, you can flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It may be lame, so don't upvote it. But if we start flagging lame articles it kind of defeats the purpose of voting. Save flags for stuff like the political article I submitted yesterday :) that you feel are seriously off-topic.

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Re:What are the best sites for programming news? by ErrantX on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @07:46AM (#618381)

The last part of that I sometimes ignore: I find it polite to explain why I flagged something because the submitter might not figure why it got trashed :) (and if nothing else that stops a later "Why?" thread).

(and for the record I flagged this too for other reasons) EDIT: I suspect apu flagged it for being "lame" because it was a self-submission.

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Re:What are the best sites for programming news? by apu on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @11:58AM (#618744)

I left a comment for the exact reason you describe. However, I flagged it because it was a zero-content post, not because of the self-submission (although obviously that didn't help).

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Re:What are the best sites for programming news? by ErrantX on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @01:42PM (#618937)

yeh sorry I misphrased: I was thinking the fact it was a self submission too tipped the balance to flag it (it did for me: I was kinda assuming by extension - my bad)

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