readwriteweb.com — Call it a dupe if you will, but this provides a more accurate look at what Calacanis wants to do, i.e. "Netscape boss Jason Calacanis has offered to essentially buy out the top users on Digg, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit for $1000 per month"
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nekoJul 19, 2006
I can digg this. Let's just say it moved me. TO A BIGGER HOUSE! ;)
cyburaiJul 19, 2006
You, sir, now owe me a new keyboard and monitor.. That made my morning.
akinbanjoJul 19, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Why_buying_digg_users_cannot_work,_re_Calcanis,_Netscape.com">http://digg.com/tech_news/Why_buying_digg_users_cannot_work,_re_Calcanis,_Netscape.com</a>
Closed AccountJul 19, 2006
Bless the creative folk amongst us. It's what keeps me reading the comments.
Closed AccountJul 19, 2006
Where's my check?No pay no click.
gwjcJul 19, 2006
oncebanned said: "does anyone in here think that some of the guys don't already get paid?"I'll go even further and say, I think that all of the guys don't already get paid.
mikaellindbergJul 20, 2006
It's the old "feet in the sand"-metaphor:If you stand with your feet in the sand, there will be large marks when you leave. However, before you leave, the holes cannot be filled. If the "top-20" posters leave digg, expect a slight sense of loss during the first days but then the community will repair itself, though possibly with a slightly different feel to it. Who knows, it might be the best that ever happened to digg (no offence meant to the "top-20" crowd, I read your posts too).
macowellJul 21, 2006
You know, William Gibson essentially predicted this sort of social-engineering/marketing was going to start happening, if it wasn't already, in his recent book Pattern Recognition.