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- p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -10/+50It's unfortunate you chose to do this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+44do you really think that if I was to bid on my own item that I would use that name, get real.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+31the profile will be theirs so I will have to give them the password so they can log on to it. I will then start fresh on Digg with a new username.....or retire
- smurf1337, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17This is hilarious. But face it, you aren't worth anything:)
- ofimiano, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Another vote for deletion!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12current bid - $203. Amazing, people will throw their $$$ to any crap. Donate that money to feed the poor instead.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17why? Not that I think what he's doing is good or bad... but really... who f'n cares?
If you do, get a life. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+22I did this mostly out of curiosity, well see what will happen, even if the bids go high it does not mean they will pay up. I also realize I will probably be flamed over this but it was more of "lets see what happen" thing, sorry if I have cheapened the site in any way, I love this site and will continue to visit it. Again I am not geekforlife2, i'm sure it is someone screwing around.
- Protonz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19How? The same way same sex marriage ruins straight marriage?
Honestly, how does this affect you? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Amazing how digg fanboys/girls dig comments down for not being negative about this experiment.
- deut, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Why shouldn't he profit from all the time he has invested in building up his profile? KR stands to gain millions on the back of Geekforlife's work. (...and the other top users.)
Fair play to him and good luck with the auction. - rmassie, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Bid Cancelled: Explanation: he is running up the bid
... I would have paid for it. If you are allowed to list something out of curiosity, I should be able to bid on it out of curiosity. - jrking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Not weighing in one way or the other on whether this is right or wrong, I just wanted to say why would I want to buy someone else's top 100 account? Once I take possession of it, I have the responsibility to keep it in the top 100, and if I wasn't able to get there with my own account, what would make me think I could keep it there with someone else's?
- radicaldementia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@protonz
When I mentioned a trend, I was referring to the general concept of people putting a price on various entities in digg, be it profiles, submissions, or diggs. But first lets address the issue as you interpretted it. It has already been inferred in other articles that the top 100 digg users are highly influential over the rest of the community. The basis is that these users have a lot of friends who will digg up their stories so they get to the front page, which in turn causes more users to digg them and befriend that user. If such a digg profile were to suddenly change owners, and assuming that the new owner began submitting different types of articles, it could cause a minor, but noticable shift in the content that makes the front page. Now lets speculate that a top 100 user sells his/her profile to an advertising company which then begins submitting spam. If this only happened to one such user, not much would happen since everyone would just bury the submissions. But what if spam companies began buying many digg accounts and started digging up each other's stories? I'm sure this does happen, but only with newly registered accounts. Chances are the site flags users who sign up and immediatly begin submitting lots of stories that get buried. However, if this suddenly started happening with top 100 accounts which have a history of good/popular submissions, we would no doubt be seeing spam on the front page.
Now lets move on to what I was really getting at. When you introduce money into a site like digg, the original intent of the site gets lost. What would happen if a company began paying people to submit their articles...not much since it would probably get submitted anyway. But what if the company began paying people small amounts to digg that article? What if political organizations began paying digg users to post comments or mass-bury stories? Now I'm an idealist and I believe that most people who are active on digg aren't here to try to make money (and wouldn't be if it was available) or carry out some sort of agenda, but there are millions of other internet users who would probably be willing to spend some time here screwing things up for the rest of us if it meant getting a few bucks.
To answer your question, this affects me because I don't want to see users selling their profiles to the highest bidder, who may turn out to be a spammer, and do what I just described. I also would probably stop coming here if I felt that people are only on here to make money.
Lastly, to clarify, I certainly realize that this one user's actions do not reflect the actions or intent of any other digg users, which is why I am only afraid of this starting a trend of profile selling. This is all speculation on my part, and I don't want to accuse anyone who hasn't actually done anything yet.
I hope I've made myself more clear, if you still disagree with me that's fine. - jaredvolkl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5People, this is pointless. So you sell your top 100 account. What's to stop you from just creating a new account?
Remember, the account is not the user. While this account may have a certain status and because of this, a certain power, they will both diminish unless the new owner keeps up the work. It's not the account, it's the person behind it. - juparave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Interesting exercise, I think you're making history here. Get the picture for the future, selling eBay accounts with great reputations, selling monsters-game accounts for strength and blood, selling blog accounts with tons of traffic. It's business there are guys willing to sell and guys willing to pay.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Exactly, it's not about the money, how far is $300, or $500 gonna get me, that won't even pay my mortgage for the month. This is more for fun then anything else.
- Xcaliburmyght, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Jaredvolkl
This about it this way. It isn't like he is trying just to sell the account because he is bored, its more like a test of pop culture. Sure the new user of the account may or may not keep up with the account, but as the user stated in the beginning, he may make a new account, and may not. I think this should be used for some kinda wonky Science experiment or something. - jameshales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not just any crap. It has to be the first few people who've ever done it, for it to work. After that people get bored because it really isn't that interesting beyond the initial surprise that someone's doing something that crazy.
A popular Internet business model now is to sell something crazy and worthless and be the first to do so. People will throw large sums of money at you because they're taken by the moment and think it is ludicrous. I mean, who really wants to trade anything of value for a red paper clip, or to pay $100 for a 10x10px advert? - psylence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I have an invention that will make your sentences readable my friend.
It's called, the comma! Using it requires you to press the key with the , symbol on it. - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not only the grammar, but using racial slurs? C'mon, have the slightest bit of decency, at least enough not to say something like that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3$812 now big by ididthistogetondigg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+12sorry, You said you were bidding for fun it did not sound like you were going to pay
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6waaaaaa!!!!! Go cry somewhere else little girl.
- alchumley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2GoldenPalace.com will buy it :-)
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's at 300
- Burgerman851, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wait! Let me file a patent on this!
*Runs to fill out patent application* - xCIone, on 04/15/2009, -0/+1lol the bid is really increasing.
- G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Jeeze. What a waste. My account is also in the top 100 (although it is steadily declining because I rarely submit stories) I have over 3 times the page views, and almost the exact number of stories that made it to the front page. I love digg and will never sell my account. I think whoever the retard who buys his account doesn't pay, or pays and gets a deleted account. What a retard.
- jameshales, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But isn't the reputation built and maintained by the person using the account, and the traffic built by whoever owns the site? Doesn't pawning off names and reputations completely ruin the concept of the reputation?
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Holy ***** *****. $325.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i swear to god it was at 822...Why is it at 710 now?
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1822 dollars as of now. This is LMAO funny
- juparave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's exactly the point! he's selling his work not his identity.
- Saiyanz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's a very interesting read, i guess they aren't as "stupid" as they seem
- gaia88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People have been making money doing this on MySpace for a while. They'll create a profile (usually with a pic of a hottie attached), get a bunch of friends, then sell it to somebody (usually a marketing company or something). I don't really care of he does it. Good for him for making a buck.
BTW, did anybody notice that PayPerPost is the high bidder? Wonder what they're going to do with it? Some nefarious purpose, perhaps? - Saiyanz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lollers not surprised =P, so does that mean that original post was wrong?? Since the average digg owner is not $2 but $200 instead or at-least you are anyway.
Congrats on easy cash, and don't retire start anew and get some more cash for you fruits of labor ;) Although i think it would be a bit more difficult 2ND time around and then people might view it negatively if you do things for cash. - Saiyanz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ha ha yeah i was being sarcastic, have you read that one article of the 10 most unlikely businesses that succeeded? Million Dollar Homepage was 1st one on there, here is the link if you haven't really fun to look at it
http://weirdtechnewshub.blogspot.com/2006/07/top-10-dumbest-online-business-ideas.html - startupguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks like the high bidder was brave enough to come out in public and explain why.
See article here: http://onstartups.com/ - startupguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not stupid, just looks like he's trying to buy a brand (and get some publicity along the way).
With things like the million dollar homepage out there, I'm surprised people are calling this stupid/silly. - detrate, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4you're dumb enough to sell your name on eBay
- shawnblog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I would never sell mine.
- Dasien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1congratulations to the IDIOT who paid 200 plus for a digg account.
- NismoDrift, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5wow typical digg users he is able to do what he wants with his account it wont affect noone. I mean some people register accounts and do crap with em this guy did alot going to make money and then keep coming to this site. dammit he loves this site, and you say thats not patriotic to digg wow you guys are stupid its not your account so stay out of his bussiness yall are a bunches of *****. Dugg because he has the freedom to do what he wants without you bitches saying hes retarded or stupid say an opiion nicely.
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Assuming the profile isnt deleted...
Anyone who befriended this guy, remove him from your friends list.
Stop digging his submissions.
Geekforlife is a sell out. - rm999, on 10/12/2007, -15/+11Are you sure you would want to give out your password? I feel like for 5 bucks someone could totally ruin your account and reputation. Plus my guess would be that is against the terms of service. What you may want to do instead is give the person the option to send you e-mails of what they want in your profile, and you can put it in yourself.
Your profile has only 9000 pageviews - that isn't very much. I don't really know how much you'd be able to get for this (except maybe some sort of novelty factor). - Carbamide, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Not only will it hurt the account's reputation, it will hurt digg's reputation if they allow him to do this. For a guy that claims he "loves" this site, it's a pretty pathetic thing to do.
As is capitalism, I suppose. - SchlipDaBraunt, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3No need to Gold Mine on WoW... you can Digg eBay.
- MaNiaC510, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3gay
- user123, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Apparently just another method of whoring yourself out for money on the internet.
This "test" was stale before it begin. -
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