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let's take a guess who and why.. follow the money

• jtheory 15y ago
  Are you suggesting that FJ itself is doing the work of clipping out attribution from content their users upload? Huh. I haven't visited FunnyJunk before, but from what I read the users gain reputation/karma or something similar (but not money) by posting original content that gets lots of upvotes/views. So honest users are motivated to create something high-quality to upload. Dishonest users are motivated to remove attribution from someone else's high-quality work. I don't think you can pin this part of the problem directly onto FJ (though that's where the site revenue goes). "Follow the money" assumes there aren't other motivating factors.
  • zalew 15y ago
    actually 'follow the money' is a strategy based on finding the one who gained the most from the certain action, it doesn't have to be 'money' literally. but yes, I was suggesting that FJ could also generate content by himself, because: 1) why not? 2) he didn't remove all oatmeal material 3) he got all agressive about the idea, I mean, what's the problem, if it was his user's work he could just remove it, take down the karma and that's it.