pg has mentioned in the past that he would like to ban techcrunch, but couldn't do so because they provide so much coverage of his startups.

Submissions from bullshit SV news sites is the price you pay for using a site that primarily exists as a marketing exercise.

Note that 'lower quality' sites about other sections of the tech industry have been banned for years (appleinsider, winsupersite etc).

We're unlikely to ban TechCrunch, but are happy to change urls to more substantive articles when you and other users point them out.

(We changed the URL from http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/google-launches-managed-ser...)