Mike Arrington Introduces Us To the "First F*ucking Amendement"

[startupguy12]

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/15/mike-arrington-introduces-us-to-the-first-fcking-amendment/

[CurtHagenlocher]

It's a first-world problem, sure, but I'm seriously suffering from "Arrington F*ucking fatigue".

[gjm11 → CurtHagenlocher]

Then you should probably stop f*cking Arrington.

[cienrak]

The winner from this group receives the Disrupt Cup and $50,000, taking over possession from Disrupt New York winner Getaround. Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. And the winner is…Shaker! Disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is an investor in Prism Skylabs and is a pending investor in Shaker.

[18pfsmt → cienrak]

I'm not some Arrington fan, and I try to stay away from Beta's posts; but, if you watched the TCDisrupt coverage, Arrington was trying to invest in just about everything.

[sneak]

  Serious question, not rhetoric: Why do people write "f*ck" whe they mean "fuck"?

  They ran his original, "fuck"-containing quote in the story, and "F*ck" in the headline.

[dfxm12 → sneak]

It's considered bad form to have profanity in headlines. Of course, having a minced oath like f*ck in its place kinda defeats the point...

I'd rather not have sensationalized headlines, but oh well.

[sneak → dfxm12]

Why is it considered bad form? Considered by whom?

[dfxm12 → sneak]

By style guides, like the one by AP.

[darklajid → sneak]

Clbuttic problem of different (and sometimes hard to understand/judge) case of NSFW regulations maybe?

It makes no sense to me either, though.

[fferen → sneak]

And, of course, the submission title uses the entire word AND the asterisk, which is perhaps an attempt to poke fun? Or just a funny mistake.

[funkah]

The tech community deserve everything we get for letting this idiot clown rise to the top of our field. I wish I could stop hearing about him, but of course that will never happen.

[bdhe → funkah]

Let's not get into name-calling. I think HN usually agrees that despite his personality Arrington did definitely have the skills and contacts it took to "rise to the top" and carve out a niche for himself. If we choose to disagree with how he's using that advantage, we should come up with better and more constructive criticisms, perhaps discussions on how to ensure that publications like TC don't monopolize the tech journalism market at least in the Silicon Valley (people often forget how much of an echo chamber the Valley produces, even more so because of how closely everyone is connected through Twitter/Facebook/Google+ etc.).