In that case, why is valleywag banned?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160704

Collective screening of linkbait/spam articles is useful IMHO.

Banning TechCrunch would be awkward for pg.

because it's banned, I just had this great nostalgic moment. "Remember when ValleyWag used to clog news.yc with crap?" Glad those days are behind us.

You haven't provided nay supporting arguments for what makes VW different from TC or CH.

Valleywag is specifically about insulting individuals involved with companies. TechCrunch focuses on breaking news, even when a good deal of the time it's crap, and CodingHorror might be uneducated but Jeff Atwood is still writing things that are relevant to this site. We don't need articles about Julia Allison and Tina Fey.

I think Valleywag is actually better-written than those other two. It just happens to be completely off-topic.

i wasn't attempting to justify either. I was merely remebering the days when VW littered the front page. I sometimes feel the same about TC, as well, but TC does tend to feature interesting startups I'd have otherwise missed. And in my opinion the signal to noise ratio on their rss is too low to justify subscribing

Yes, screening is OK, but banning the whole site just because you don't like them is nonsense.

Read the OP. This isn't about "Not liking TC", it's about the quality of journalism they have been displaying lately.

I can say that statements in the poll definition are very arguable, and can be easily dictated by the author's personal attitude. (You say - "Strong negative bias" and would qualify this as a "Journalist investigation").

They used a screen-grab of an email to bolster their case! As if that adds credibility :/

Lately? That's a joke.

Because of TC's journalistic standards, I forbade my team members from talking to TC about our stealthy project... 18 mos ago.