How about a few of us here get together, throw up a wordpress install, and start a self-serve tech/startup site. I've got RobotSays.com. Basically anyone can be an author, they create a guest post, upload their content and their picture, and submit the post for approval and we the editors fix up anything out of place and approve only the best content for the front page. A lot of design blogs allow guest post submissions and it works out very well.
Basically when it comes to tech/startup news this is all I want to know:
1 - when new startups launch
2 - important new game changing features that existing startups are implementing
3 - advice and interviews (Ask me anything) from startup founders
4 - new game changing gadgets coming out
5 - when startups are hiring
6 - when startups are sunsetting and why
That's it, no dirty laundry being aired, no drama, no egos, no kings, no divas.
Well, you just invented slashdot. It's fallen by the wayside now, because places like this, with (largely) unmoderated user generated content, can distribute news faster.
I do agree with you, but if HN were so go at news then why does TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, AllThingsD, Mashable, etc... exist? HN isn't really a content creator, it's a distributor of content that has already been created at those sites mentioned. HN is a great community of news commentators, but HN is terrible at allowing people to generate content and articles themselves.
And those types of content creators (editors) put so much hard work into their pieces they want to find a good home for their articles, a permanent place of existence. People writing guest posts for TC, RWW, GO, ATD, Mash, can just as easily make a post here on HN. But they don't. No one wants to put in so much hard work and research just for it to disappear into the jungle of links and never be found again.
Basically when it comes to tech/startup news this is all I want to know:
1 - when new startups launch
2 - important new game changing features that existing startups are implementing
3 - advice and interviews (Ask me anything) from startup founders
4 - new game changing gadgets coming out
5 - when startups are hiring
6 - when startups are sunsetting and why
That's it, no dirty laundry being aired, no drama, no egos, no kings, no divas.