PG ValleyWag Article: why not on front page of Hacker News?

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by newapp • 13 years ago

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How come todays' controversial article on valleywag about PG not even make the front page of Hacker News? There are 2 possible theories:

a> It is being censored b> Hacker News is mostly guys who don't really care

kanwisher• 13 years ago

I believe valleywag is a banned domain for the trash that's generally on there

mindcrime• 13 years ago

Well, it's a shitty article for one thing. It's just whining and moaning trying to make pg look bad using some out-of-context quotes. There's not substantive content or discussion in that piece. It's just "waaaaah, Paul said something, that if you take it out of context and bend it enough, could vaguely be interpreted as disparaging to women".

But there's no actual rebuttal of his point, there's no suggestions for what to do (if anything) about this situation, etc.

In short, it's garbage tabloid "journalism" and really doesn't deserve to be here.

argonaut• 13 years ago

Valleywag, and anything from Gawker, for that matter, has been banned for years, due to being complete trash. Valleywag's entire business model is to get page views by generating artificial controversy.

roopeshv• 13 years ago

c) there is flamewar detector on HN

and the correct option is c)

PG ValleyWag Article: why not on front page of Hacker News?

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