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Ask HN: ban bloomberg, nytimes, etc.

8 points by quadcore ↗ HN
Those type of posts have invaded the front page and they are systematically only half interesting. Right now, I count 9 of them on the front page. I wish they weren't on HN knowing that if you like them, you know where to find them.

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smt88
I don't personally come to HN to discover news. That does happen, but it's not strictly necessary. Reddit is also a great discovery service.

I keep coming back to HN in order to read what a bunch of unbelievably smart, analytical, and rational people (with diverse backgrounds) have to say about the news. Posters here often have firsthand experience with tech, government, military, and other industries.

On top of that, commented without substance are discouraged and hidden. It's the best signal-to-noise ratio on the mainstream web, in my opinion.

chatmasta
It’s not the posting of the articles that’s the problem, it’s the upvoting of them.
coreyp_1
I'm pretty sure that these are submitted as part of a marketing strategy for these sites (free advertising). Step 1: publish a story. Step 2: submit it to HN (and Reddit, and FB, etc.).

They don't care about the community.

minimaxir
The amount of traffic HN provides is insignificant to these companies.
danso
Top Reuters story is currently #2 with 365 upvotes. Its top comment is from one of the original engineers of MP3.com recounting his experience in having to do data munging in response to recording industry lawsuits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056156

Seems like a pretty good HN topic and discussion to me.

quadcore
good catch. Removed from list.
quadcore
Anyway, this post got banned :)