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- markp93, on 10/10/2007, -1/+93I could see how it won awards, at least the software does exactly what it is designed to do, and it is probably a very secure piece of code :)
- RocketGib, on 10/10/2007, -0/+67Not to mention that his code is cross-platform!
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -4/+55Where are Digg's awards??
- Fl0ydP1nkert0n, on 10/10/2007, -2/+51This reminds me of the Grammies for some reason.
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+48Let me think....
Hrrm..... If only there was a way of giving approval/disapproval for an item listed on digg.................................
I'm sure there HAS to be a way. - Reziarfg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Quit goin' in circles and tell us already!!
- LotusWolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27I give that article 5 stars
- acu8509, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15probably because when they were posting the awards they got a "session expired" error.
- LotusWolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=awardmestars&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
and
http://www.ezgoal.com/channels/utilities/score.asp?f=423073
i wonder who gave it 9/10 stars...i guess it didnt quite do nothing good enough - OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17That's isn't such a bad idea. Except, how would we vote for them?
- str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I always suspected this, but I guess this confirms that those awards are BS - not surprising since you almost always see the cruddiest software showing of their awards - and then trying to use those awards to validate that they don't "have any spyware" in the program. I only wish the author would provide the direct links to his software for each site so that we can confirm his story, because right now we're just going purely on his story.
- ThePixelator, on 10/10/2007, -8/+20go away.
seriously, I hate you people. - ThePixelator, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17Thats a great idea! I've even got some ideas for some categories:
most elaborate conspiracy
longest rant
most liberal-biased article
the how-the-hell-did-this-make-it-to-the-front-page award
and some awards for the users (this being a user based site):
greatest bush hater
most self-centered intellectual
stupidest comment
just to name a few... - thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Well, if you're posting an award that deeply in a comment thread.... you don't deserve to win!
- Tobark, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Not sure what the guy means. It ran fine on my Win 3.11 system.
- a3r0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10You'll need a Top 10 list for each
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11or no platform at all! :p
- EdgarVerona, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Aye, this is 100% common. Basically, you should ignore any awards you see for products from sites you've never heard of.
lol, the first version of our software got solicited for probably two dozen "awards" within the first week of us posting it (without us even asking them, or even knowing they existed... they sent us E-Mails informing us that we "won" their "award"), and it was utter ***** because our program was having major issues on most people's computers until our first patch a few weeks later that fixed it all up.
Apparently the sites that hand out these phony "awards" are looking for a few things:
1) Advertisement for their bogus sites (where they spam people with advertisements or get them to download spyware)
2) Hosting (and then corrupting) otherwise valid software that they claimed "won" the "award" (as in they add spyware to otherwise healthy install programs)
3) They try to directly hit up the company for money in exchange for other BS reviews and "awards".
When we realized what was happening, we flipped all these bogus companies the bird and called it a day. It's definately lame. - moojj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Many years ago I developed shareware applications that were listed on many download sites (and continue to be listed). In fact, I still get awards for my software products (even though the products don't even exist anymore).
The "awards" are more about PR than they are about the quality of the product. If you receive a 5 star award for your software you will be more inclined to list it on your website along with the nice logo they give you and a link back to their "review" page. --- With that said, my publisher used to have an "affiliate" program. Sites could sell the products and receive a 20%-30% commission. Oddly enough, sites that got a commission for the sale would rank the software higher than those that didn't. - bigteebo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7In the early days of the web, people were all too proud to put "awards" they got from various websites, to put on their geocities page. Looks like the tradition continues. My favorite one was the "bottom 95% of the web"(a spoof of top 5% IIRC), and "everyone gets an award". Wow that's oldschool.
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I'll drink to that.
- chilekillr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Who didn't see that coming though?
- ctrlfreak13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Thats not the point, it's that these sites are mindlessly accepting programs and awarding nearly all of them top ratings without ever even using the program itself
- evilpettingzoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Well it was spyware and virus free.
- flaterates, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Read this! Click the link! SFW What a great program! Five stars!
- raccettura, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5This is common in many industries. Web Hosting is another one. They constantly try to get hosting companies to pay for listing, reviews, etc. etc. End users often don't know that these things are generally pretty bogus.
If PC World, MacWorld, CNet or other publications rate something... it's pretty legit. But most of the other awards are BS. - jdhammer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Bravo!
Nothing looks more foolish than a company caught with its pants down...... - tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Very portable!
- str3ama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5in vino veritas..ah.. I'm certain that was my universities latin motto
- thcobbs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Only awards that are decided after the second martini of the morning should count!
Who's with me? - SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://www.getfreesofts.com/soft/819/63296/awardmestars.html
http://awardmestars.oryx-digital-ltd.alienpicks.com/
http://www.5starshare.com/awardmestars-soft46851.html (quite fitting name for the site BTW)
http://www.goldsofts.com/soft/842/59748/awardmestars.html
http://www.programsdb.com/program/155/57114/awardmestars.html
http://awardmestars.download-363-47955.programsbase.com/
http://mostshareware.com/soft/awardmestars-download-34390.html
All of those gave it a five-star award, and that's only searching the first page or so of results (and aren't among the ones listed on the page, either). This is disgusting. I'm sure many people fall for those "awards", just like there was a recent article here saying most people in the USA aren't aware of internet scams. There is a good chance of malware being distributed by these sites. - grungegbunny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Great job on busting this out. Much of the internet has no oversight for quality control so its up to users like this to bring it into the spotlight.
- joltguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The Mac version of this software is way better.
- chrisbarr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I remember back when Mac OS Tiger Widgets were new, I made a few very very simple ones ( a clock and a CNN RSS feed reader) and I "won" some awards for my "software". They approved because it didn't contain viruses. I was proud of my work, but I'd hardly call some javascript and HTML "software". Needless to say, I never displayed my awarded badges anywhere.
- Myonosken, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Why's he getting dugg down? Are you seriously saying a single line of text is LESS SECURE than *nix? ***** fanboys.
- dhughes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4 I downloaded it and it works exactly as the author said. Two thumbs up! ;)
- swrlyhrly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This isn't about award ceremonies. Did you RTFA?
- goldenratiophi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Does its job perfectly and doesn't crash easily. I don't see the problem here.
/sarcasm, obviously - squegie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Here's one with the 5 stars:
http://www.getfreesofts.com/soft/819/63296/awardmestars.html - LoopyChew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Some more of those fake website awards for those people who're interested: http://www.thecorporation.net/en/icons/icon.htm
I'm thinking that the next website I work on will get the "Low Counter Award for Mediocre Websites." - miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This was a great "heads-up" for people. The proliferation of ***** on the internet is so vast that we should give awards to people like this guy--who tracked it and exposed it. Very digg-worthy!
- Frosty122, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3i downloaded his software, but it doesn't do anything...can anyone help me?
- Myonosken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Hey Weather, I don't go around bitching about the flaws in Linux, so stfu. Windows is fine for those of us that want something easy and stable (and yes XP SP2 is ***** damn stable alright).
- marinLETOILE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Investigative nerdalism at its best.
- Frosty122, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3that's diffrent than having an award though.
- MoneyShot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not exactly, they just cost a bit more to whore out for the evening. PC World's Editor in Chief recently resigned after being forced to continue giving major advertisers undeserved reviews. http://news.com.com/PC+World+editor+resigns+over+apparent+ad+pressure/2100-1030_3-6181075.html
- tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8It's even more secure than any *nix system and completely user-proof.
- Salgat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Web 0.5 still lives!
- astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Watch as the simple 'txt' file used in this story, is re-bundled into a "setup.exe" which contains now loads of Spyware, then these types of awards are posted all over it to get as many people infected as possible while the site owner is getting paid by the Spyware companies a percentage of money per each title downloaded, and each PC infected with Spyware.
- Sushubh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2oooh. i am on linux. i can't help ya.
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