I think you may be thinking about this the wrong way. Instead of identifying stuff that we all agree is good, lets start with stuff we can almost universally agree is bad (Sieve of Eratosthenes style.):

* Articles on sites like techcrunch about the prank.

* Really obvious stuff like "youtube shutting down".

EDIT: * Duplicates.

* Anything that announces it's a "prank" in the title.

Can we generally agree that forbes.com and techcrunch should not be upvoted? Both seem toxic.

I don't know about everything on forbes, but contributor (i.e. random blogs hosted on forbes.com) writing does seem to be low quality with linkbait titles.

Yeah, I'm starting to feel like I'm not part of techcrunch's target audience.

Their constant rss spamming is a drag. I realized that tc is just one level above engadget and lifehacker I would opt in for weekly summaries or another aggregator, ya know any?

Thats unfair to Forbes to be lumped in with the scum that is TC.