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VC's Livid With Digg: Cash Was Not Meant for More "Bongs and Beer"
- yan 18y agoI want to read more about the social news black market. Does anyone have any material or comments on it?
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- nickb 18y agoDigg specific... http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832
- jbenz 18y agoThis an older article from WIRED (March 2007). A writer was able to buy votes to a lame, made-up blog post. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72832 I'll try to find something newer.
- endtwist 18y agoWhile this article is supposed to be satirical (I hope), it fails at even being remotely humorous. As much as I love reading an invented rant, the excessive amount of swearing just ruins the whole effect of the article and reduces it to a childish game of "look how much I can swear!"
- ryanb 18y agoAnd this is stupid, but honestly, who uses the term "mary jane"?
- rudyfink 18y agoTom Petty?
- silentbicycle 18y agoExactly.
- agotterer 18y ago"Welcome to TekPopuli... The last ugly bastard of tech journalism with unbeatably impeccable standards and incrutable insider information is the one lone blog that stands against the cronyism, the idiocy, and the hypocrisy of the new media techmemefeedification of tech news. Totally."
- froo 18y agoso... it's like Valleywag, just without the occasional interesting post?
- menloparkbum 18y agoit is a satire site - it just isn't good enough to be funny.
- ilamont 18y agoMy bet: Post-FSJ Dan Lyons
- iamelgringo 18y agoDo you know how much money crosses hands every day in the Digg blackmarket? About $1.6 million dollars.... Wow, even if the figure is 1/10th of that, it's still a huge pile of cash.
- alaskamiller 18y agoIt was almost believable. But I'm not sure what it's relevant to?
- apstuff 18y agoPsst. Hey pal. What's a fella gotta do to get Dugg?
- froo 18y agoDon't laugh, I actually know a few top diggers who actually do that. No names will be mentioned, but they know exactly who they are.
- trickjarrett 18y agoHow does this hit the top of HN without someone coming in and decrying it's nonhacker nature? I laughed at this, but I just want to stop and remark on the fact.
- biohacker42 18y agoAre people up-voting this because they think it is funny, or because they think it's real? It's neither.
- stcredzero 18y agoApostrophe-S is not a plural!
- paulgb 18y agoIt's pretty commonly accepted to use an apostrophe when pluralizing an acronym. It might not technically be correct, but it improves readability, and sacrificing readability for correctness is silly.
- gstar 18y agoBut - it's very incorrect, I don't agree that it enhances readability - and moreover it makes my blood boil. Google fails me for finding a citation, but apparently the precedent was set by cigarette advertising (for say, 25's).
- froo 18y agoYeah, Revision3 is going blue next January. 100% home-made porn. Incoming slander lawsuit.