<i>&gt; You can use Gawker Media as a citation, but they&#x27;re no more than a series of gossip sites</i><p>This isn&#x27;t true anymore; Gawker sites have done valuable reporting in a number of areas. As have Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post, two other sites that HNers tend to dismiss automatically. (IIRC, HN&#x27;s software will silently reject any submission of a Gawker URL at all, which is kind of ridiculous.)