I call BS on this article. Fact: Tipd has shown very strong growth. This is true. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tipd.com/?metric=uv http://siteanalytics.co

I call BS on this article. Fact: Tipd has shown very strong growth. This is true. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tipd.com/?metric=uv http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tipd.com/?metric=uv Claim: This growth can be traced to their great "community features" like an inviter, a top domains page, a top ambassadors page and "maintaining focus on community and continuously delivering tools to help them sort through the noise that has become an unfortunate side effect of today's information age." Problem: If Tipd is so great at community building, why are there only 6 comments across the 15 stories on their front page? And all 6 of these comments are either Techcrunch style "Awesome article!" comments or spam comments promoting some other site. Community = comments/discussion and they appear to be struggling mightily on that front. What's more likely is that Tipd is powered by autosubmission scripts scraping feeds they like. That their traffic is all organic, attracted by the financial keywords. And that their comments are left by their own sock puppet accounts as well as financial blog spammers. I run a social news site myself. These approaches are all very easy and tempting to take to boost traffic and activity. If someone does it, fine, but then don't pitch a phony story to Read Write Web, chalking your growth up to other factors. It hurts the cause by putting false information out there.