Ask HN: Why is there so much The Atlantic on the frontpage?

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by rmorabia • 12 years ago

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The Atlantic is known for clickbait, low-quality articles that would possibly never get voted so many times on Hacker News, and beyond that, so many times in one day.

erkose2• 12 years ago

Are you trolling us? The Atlantic is a well regarded publication.

mindcrime• 12 years ago

Yeah, but it's awfully general for HN. We've really been drifting heavily in the direction of "general news" and generic political / social stuff for some time now, which is unfortunate.

Personally, I'd like a lot less of that stuff, and more "How I implemented MQTT in Erlang on an rPi", etc. :-)

rmorabia• 12 years ago

Definitely not trolling. The Atlantic may be well-regarded, but it's full of pseudo-science and feel-good news that doesn't seem on par with Hacker News' adherence to quality.

erkose2• 12 years ago

I think you've confused The Atlantic with medium dot com.

RedStarComrade• 12 years ago

Maybe they're link spam bots. Reddit had this issue before, I believe.

Ask HN: Why is there so much The Atlantic on the frontpage?

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