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At the time of this hack, digg had only about 20 employees, had raised not $40 million, but around $6 million, and the culture was quite open and relaxed. But t
by ojbyrne 16y ago
At the time of this hack, digg had only about 20 employees, had raised not $40 million, but around $6 million, and the culture was quite open and relaxed. But there were some very smart people there, and most of them including me agreed with Tim Ellis's opinion on this "hack." It was stupid.
Now perhaps some on the management side overreacted, but we were inundated with stupid shit on a regular basis.
- jgrahamc 16y agoIt hurts to hear that lots of people thought it was stupid. Fine. But that doesn't excuse the public bad mouthing I received. The really sad thing is that I was a very active Digg user; I was on the site every day reading stories and submitting. Here's a screenshot of the Digg front page for July 21, 2006 (five days before my prank and the closest I can find to that day): http://i.imgur.com/UE09Z.png http://i.imgur.com/UE09Z.png (actual page from archive.org is http://web.archive.org/web/20060721035713/www.digg.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060721035713/www.digg.com/). The second link down on the front page was submitted by me. I was looking for cool stories and submitting them to Digg every day during that period and then whammo I'm banned and bad mouthed.
- ojbyrne 16y agoWell, for what its worth, I wasn't big on the banning of users, and, if I had been asked in your case, would not have supported it.