Of course we don&#x27;t: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=buzzfeed.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=buzzfeed.com</a>. Two of the biggest HN stories from the past two days alone were from Buzzfeed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11075336" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11075336</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11061992" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11061992</a>. Usually the complaint I hear is &quot;why is Buzzfeed on HN&quot;.<p>Buzzfeed is one of a class of sites that produce a lot of dreck as well as the occasional high-quality article. There are many such sites, mostly media outlets. HN&#x27;s solution is to penalize them (a little) by default, but take the penalty off under different circumstances, such as if a moderator sees than an article is good or the submitter has a solid track record.<p>This has proven to be a reasonable compromise. The alternatives—not penalizing these sites at all or banning them altogether—are a lot more problematic, which is how we arrived at this strategy in the first place.