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I totally agree, people often use comments to deci...

2009-10-05T13:21:22.759Z

I totally agree, people often use comments to decide on the validity of a post, but when people are wrongly saying "good job" this only compounds the problem.

I also agree with Googling meaning MSDN for .Net languages but for JavaScript and in particular jQuery you don't have such a resource which is why there's a lot of bad, slow, some times browser killing JS on websites.

Is Technorati Rank still considered authoritive? I can't remember the last time I heard Technorati brought up, it's a sound idea but does it work? How could we make it work?

In a lot of these "bad information" cases you have...

2009-10-05T12:11:01.990Z

In a lot of these "bad information" cases you have tons of comments posted by equally clueless people along the lines of "good job!" etc which only serves to give artificial authority to the post or tutorial.

I also think that when someone says "have you Googled it?" what they quite often mean is "have you used Google to search MSDN?" so it would be really useful to have an option in Google to automatically weight results by Technorati authority, for example.