Quotably Goes From News.YC to TechCrunch In Under 3 Hours

What does that have to do with becoming another reddit? It's a good thing if something that gets popular here gets picked up by the larger tech media. It IS a popularity contest -- the question of merit lies in the question "Among WHOM is this item popular"

If smart people in aggregate think this is popular, then it has merit.

The fact that TC and others pick up on things that get popular here validates that there are still smart people hitting the up arrows (to some extent anyway).