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