Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?

Re:Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? by pg on Monday May 25, 2009 @02:14PM (#625695)

For the same reason cities suffer when people flee to the suburbs. If individuals can personally opt out of public problems, they have no incentive to work to solve them. In this case by flagging offtopic posts and criticizing mistaken ones in the comments.

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Re:Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? by zimbabwe on Monday May 25, 2009 @02:49PM (#625738)

You're equating a physical reality with a virtual one. The whole of the Internet is about filtration. There's no "real" location that grows worse or that requires effort.

Besides, a per-site filter won't stop offtopic posts from being flagged, or debates from starting. They'll only allow certain people to ignore certain posts, which those people want to do anyway. I for one wouldn't block TechCrunch, and I'm certain many more would keep reading it as well.

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Re:Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? by pg on Monday May 25, 2009 @03:16PM (#625765)

A place doesn't have to be physical to be a community.

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Re:Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? by zimbabwe on Monday May 25, 2009 @04:24PM (#625835)

But a community doesn't suffer when it lets its more extreme members ignore the things that would provoke them.

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