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I'm going to infer that 30 people dislike TechCrunch so intensely that they're willing to vote for any negative remark, because otherwise, I can't find any insight in your comment.

There are many possible intelligent criticisms to be directed toward TechCrunch, but "always about Twitter" has never been at the top of my list.

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You don't have a problem with a guy rambling about why he doesn't use twitter in 100s of words. But you have a problem with another guy rambling about why he doesn't use techcrunch in 140 characters or less?

There is very little to nothing insightful to add to a discussion about why some guy doesn't like twitter.

twitter is not for everyone the same way facebook is not for everyone, IM is not for everyone, IRC is not for everyone.

If it's not for you, its not for you. What insightful discussion you could possibly have about this? I added a not very insightful comment on a not very insightful topic. Which is what it deserves.

I haven't been following TC for sometime, but until few months ago, when I was actually following them a majority of their story was about twitter.

At least the article made some interesting arguments about the value of twitter, the feature-completeness of twitter, and so on. What did the comment add?

It didn't add anything that anyone, who uses twitter, already didn't know about.

You could disagree, but as far as I am concerned, it is one of those articles about newsflash about non-news that will get some extra page-views. You might enjoy the mentality and trash journalism quality of TC - but I don't.

For more similar trashy post please read "How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice" by Arrington few days ago. Judging from the comments number on that article, TC realized this kind of posts get massive pageviews (more money) so they continued the trend.

Don't be surprised if you see another post soon about "why I don't use x", that will pull some nerves from fanboy resulting in massive page views.

I'm not going to get in an argument with you over the merits of TechCrunch. The article contributed more to an interesting discussion than did your original comment.

No. It didn't.

So, is "Why I don't use x" the new "X considered harmful"?

Mostly people upvote things they agree with and ignore the quality and insight of the comment entirely. The exact opposite of how it's supposed to be, but even HN is subject to herd mentality and so on.

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